Australia beat India by 9 runs: Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 – as it happened

That’s it for our live coverage of Australia against India.

The defending champions confirm their place in the semifinal. But for India, it’s over to New Zealand and Pakistan to battle it out to decide which of the three will join the Australians in the last four.

We’ll have full coverage of the final Group A game on Monday as qualification goes to the wire.

We hope you enjoyed our coverage from Sharjah. Do join us for New Zealand against Pakistan if you can. 

For now, though – from me, Kevin Hand – it’s goodbye.

The Australia captain could be in line for a return for her side’s semifinal, having limped out of Friday’s win against Pakistan with a calf injury.

Cricket Australia has said Healy will be assessed ahead of their soon-to-be-confirmed last four match.

“We want to win every game we play and we knew India was going to be a really big challenge,” stand-in skipper McGrath said at the post-match ceremony. “We are glad we held our nerve to come away with the win.

“We constantly talk about what is par and what do we want to get to. We shuffled the batting order around a few teams to get the best combinations in each situation.

“The whole team got around me [as replacement captain] and helped me out there.”

“Their entire team contributed. They are not dependent on one or two players,” Kaur said of Australia at the post-match ceremony. “They know they have batters that can take control in the power play. They know they can adapt and play.

“We were there in the game to the last three or four overs. They didn’t give us easy runs and were rushing the ball all the time. They have played three or four World Cups together, and that helps.

“We accessed the wicket really well. We knew this was a chasable total, but we didn’t