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Perth, Feb 23: <\/strong>Australia skipper Meg Lanning feels it's a knockout tournament now for her team after the shock defeat to India, as the reigning champions get ready to take on Sri Lanka here on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Poonam Yadav's leg-spinning masterclass saw India complete an unlikely turnaround to open the Women's T20 World Cup in style with a pulsating victory over four-time champions Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The loss meant Australia will likely have to win their remaining three group games to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"It's not ideal, we would have loved to have won last night. But it's a long way to go in this tournament," Lanning was quoted as saying by www.cricket.com.au.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"I've never gone through a World Cup and not lost a group stage game. We've got that one out of the way early.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"It's a knockout tournament (now) -- we probably started that a little bit earlier than we would have liked.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"But there's pressure on at World Cups all the time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"We're looking no further ahead than Sri Lanka -- they're a good side and they've performed well over the last little bit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"So we'll hopefully get out tournament up and running when we come up against them."<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Sophie Devine once again proved unstoppable as her sixth consecutive 50+ score steered New Zealand to victory against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Chamari Atapattu (41) and Hasini Perera's 60-run first wicket -- Sri Lanka's best opening partnership in T20Is -- gave them a bright start but Hayley Jensen's career-best bowling sent middle-order wickets tumbling at the WACA.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"We know them pretty well -- we played a series against them late last year, and we saw them beat England the other day in the practice game," the skipper said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"We're very wary of them, we know that they're a threat -- Athapaththu especially with the bat, she's played well against us in the past.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"We'll be ready and planned, and hopefully we can execute Monday."<\/p>\r\n\r\n

On Alyssa Healy hitting form again with a 51 off 35 balls in Australia's total of 115 against India, she said: "We were always very confident she was going to come back, you guys (the media) maybe not so much," Lanning said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"It was nice to see her do well. We knew the way she plays it would eventually click for her."<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Lanning said her team were flat after the loss to India, but had since picked themselves up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"Cricket is such an up and down game, there's highs and lows all the time," she said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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