“In this format, my role within the middle-order is challenging at times. You might come in when the team’s on top, or you come in when we’re not on top. It’s summing up the situation really quickly, and finding my gears really fast, and it’s probably something that I haven’t done overly well in this format for a prolonged period of time.”
Gardner has averaged 25.11 in T20Is for Australia, taking part in within the middle-order.
The West Indies sequence represents Australia’s final main project earlier than the World Cup, and Gardner sees echoes of a pivotal interval within the aspect’s historical past that in the end reworked them into the dominant drive in ladies’s cricket.
“If I look back at that 2017 World Cup that we lost, we were just playing really timid cricket, and then we had that evolution of, ‘let’s try and take the game on, let’s be really fearless’. We’ve bought into that ever since then, and it’s almost an unwritten rule when you come into this side, that’s the brand of cricket that you play.”
