Tipped to light up the Women's World Cup with more of her sensational batting, Phoebe Litchfield will be looking to again ignite Australia's charge as they face co-hosts Sri Lanka in Colombo in their second match.
No player anywhere has batted better in the last couple of months than the 22-year-old left-hander Litchfield, whose long-admired potential perhaps started to really be fulfilled while becoming the recent player-of-the-tournament in England's The Hundred.
She hadn't managed a half-century all year, but since scoring a glorious unbeaten 59 for Northern Superchargers at Headingley in mid-August, with her heady mix of pure strokes and audaciously clean switch hits, it's almost as if she's become a different player.
