England and Australia have a long history of battles on the field, but Wednesday's match will be uncharted territory for the rivalry.
Australia backup goalkeepertried to sell the tale that this is"just" another game."I think obviously you see it in a lot of men's competition, especially in cricket and rugby," Williams told reporters."But for us, we've had so many rivalries with other countries that we've played against."ADVERTISEMENT
"There's probably a lot of English people that would love to see us knocked out by England, but I think there's more Australians that would love to see England knocked out by us," she said. To this day, the two foes play a men's cricket series against each other twice every four years for The Ashes, an antique urn which draws its symbolism from when the Sporting Times newspaper, in 1882, lamented its country's defeat to the Aussies by mocking up an obituary for the"death of English cricket," which was purportedly to be cremated and have its ashes sent Down Under.
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