A new era may have begun for Australia’s women but the winning habit persists | Geoff Lemon

The brief

Players in the Australian women’s cricket team are not accustomed to being without at least one of the two global trophies. Many moons ago, there was a gap of 11 months after they bombed in the semi-finals of both tournaments in 2009, but they fixed that with the next edition of the T20 competition in 2010. Their longest wait was 16 months between the semi-final ambush by Harmanpreet Kaur in 2017 and the T20 win in Antigua the following year. The third and final gap ended on Sunday at Lord’s, eight whole months since Australia lost their one-day title in India last November. This is what passes for scarcity in…