Australia ready to bury World Cup demons

The first rule of Australia's Women's Cricket World Cup campaign is not to talk about the last one.

The second rule of Australia's Women's Cricket World Cup campaign is not to talk about the last one.

Meg Lanning's side have endured a five-year wait to avenge the biggest disappointment of their careers, and get the chance to do it this month in New Zealand.

It is clear the last World Cup - won by hosts England in an upset triumph - has left scars.

"To be honest, we don't really talk about 2017 anymore," Lanning said this week in Christchurch.

"It obviously had a big impact on us but now it's a completely different group and we're on a new journey together."

Alyssa Healy, who, like Lanning felt the pain of 2017's semi-final exit, is also not one for reminiscing.

"You can ask me about 2017 all you want. But I've wiped it from my brain," she tells AAP, only half-joking.

Australia headed to England in 2017 as world No.1s and hot favourites, as they do this year.

Alarm bells rang after Australia fell three runs short to the hosts in a group stage chase, giving England their first World Cup win over their arch-rivals in 24 years.

Finishing second after the round-robin, Australia was then dumped out of the tournament by India in the semi-finals, when Harmanpreet Kaur's unbeaten 171 left the Aussie attack floundering.

Lanning was bowled for a duck and Healy made five as Australia fell 36 runs shy.

"It was a disappointing time for us. There's no shying away from that," Healy said.

"That England game summed up where our group was at at the time and I don't think I'm speaking out of school to say that.

"It was a comfortable run chase we made hard for ourselves. We played comfortable cricket. We didn't push the letter. We were sort