With England we’re more used to knockout cricket than Australia

After the first three games it felt as if we were going to go home before the semis even started, and now here we are. We’re really excited to have got to the final of another World Cup. In our semi-final against South Africa, things fell into place and everything went how it should do. I can’t believe it was Sophie Ecclestone’s first five-for – she’s only 22 but she already feels like part of the furniture. And I’m always happy when Danni Wyatt scores runs!

On the morning of the semi-final, 14 out of 17 of us went for brunch in this cafe, Unknown Chapter. I’m sure everyone will be back there on the day of the final – we have to do everything the same otherwise it won’t work. We’re all a bit superstitious about things like that!

We didn’t have a big celebration after the semi, because we didn’t want to get too overexcited – we didn’t want to undo all our hard work and we know the importance of the final match. It seems crazy that England haven’t played Australia in a World Cup final since 1988 – since I’ve been playing, it’s always been us two at the top, competing for that top spot, so it feels like a natural final for this competition.

After three losses in a row, you feel the whole world’s on top of you. After we lost to South Africa, I was convinced we weren’t going to make the semi-finals. But we’ve seen that with a bit of momentum, and a bit of luck here and there, things can turn quite quickly. All the chat’s been to keep trusting each other, keep trusting ourselves, keep doing the things that we’ve been doing for a really long time. Build pressure, stay patient, build partnerships. That’s what we’ve done in the last five games and that’s how we’ve turned it around.

We’ve been playing under pressure for a long