Australia's all-conquering cricket women have been reminded of the difficulty of their quest to successfully defend their T20 World Cup after suffering a rare defeat to unfancied Ireland in their final warm-up match in South Africa.
It may have only been an unofficial match and the Australians were happy to retire key batters while using it as practice - but a team unaccustomed to losing will doubtless have been more than irritated to succumb in unlikely fashion to the Irish at Stellenbosch University on Wednesday.
