Australia v Sri Lanka: Women's Twenty20 World Cup – live!

5th over: Sri Lanka 22-1 (Atapattu 12, Thimeshani 10) The left-arm spin of Jonassen for the first time today and she’s given Atapattu a loose delivery outside leg-stump to begin, lifted with ease on the sweep over the fielding circle and down to the rope. You cannot bowl there to her. An enthusiastic lbw shout follows when the Queenslander beats her with a quicker ball – sweeping again – but it is missing leg. There’s nearly a mix-up with Thimeshani running when she needn’t but she made it back to her ground with a dive. One power play over to go, Perry to bowl it.

4th over: Sri Lanka 17-1 (Atapattu 8, Thimeshani 9) Atapattu finishes with a beautiful looking off-drive but straight to the fielder. That makes four dots in a row from Perry to the Sri Lankan superstar, just what Australia want in the power play.

3rd over: Sri Lanka 16-1 (Atapattu 8, Thimeshani 8) Schutt jumping out of the blocks to begin her run-up, a feature of her approach. It doesn’t help her when giving Atapattu something to hit on leg stump though, the Sri Lankan captain clipping her away over square leg for a boundary to get her afternoon going. But the South Australian rights back, landing a perfect off-cutter to beat the outside edge. Good cricket. Atapattu’s turn to return serve, lofting an attractive drive over the fielders on the circle at cover for a second boundary, holding the pose for the photographers. Without overdoing this point, it is all about Chamari. If she can bat for 15 overs, Sri Lanka will finish with a very competitive tally.

2nd over: Sri Lanka 8-1 (Atapattu 0, Thimeshani 8) If a second slip was in position for Perry she would have had Thimeshani’s wicket first ball! It was a lovely delivery, shaping away from the right-hander and kissing the edge on the way through. Instead, it beats the diving Lanning from first slip with four runs added – Sri Lanka are off the mark. She plays a far more attractive shot later in the over, stroking Perry straight back past her boots for a second boundary.

1st over: Sri Lanka 0-1 (Atapattu 0, Thimeshani 0) Well, after talking up Sri Lanka’s power play exploits against New Zealand on Saturday where they added 51 without loss, this time around, by contrast, it is a wicket maiden first up. Superb from Schutt, who took some tap against India during the power play on Friday.

Third ball, Madushika takes a swipe at Schutt outside the off-stump but gets very little of it, the ball ballooning to Mooney who takes an easy chance at point.

Meg Lanning leads her side to the middle. This really is a task in two parts for the hosts: first, the have to contain/remove Atapattu, especially in this power play. Then, they need to squeeze Sri Lanka’s fragile batting line-up. But they can’t get ahead of themselves – one follows the other. Madushika joins her captain in the middle, going nicely so far on this trip; they added 60 against New Zealand. She will face the first ball, to be sent down by Megan Schutt. PLAY!

The players are on the field for anthems. I wonder whether they allow an extra couple of minutes for Sri Lanka’s epic? It cops a lot of grief but I’m a fan.

Australia: Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning (c), Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Nicola Carey, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Molly Strano, Megan Schutt.

Sri Lanka: Hasini Perera, Chamari Atapattu (c), Umesha Thimashini, Anushka Sanjeewani (wk), Harshitha Madavi, Shashikala Siriwardene, Nilakshi de Silva, Ama Kanchana, Kavisha Dilhari, Sugandika Kumari, Udeshika Prabodhani.

“We want to play our positive cricket again today.” Too right. It was lost in the coverage of their tournament opener on Saturday just how close they came to knocking off New Zealand on Saturday at this same ground.

Meg Lanning says that Australia would have bowled had they won the toss, so they aren’t too worried. She is wearing a new cap, to reflect her 100th game. “It looks like a typical Waca wicket with plenty of grass on it, it’ll play well.” All-rounder Nicola Carey is into the Australian XI in place of Annabel Sutherland.

We’re not far away from toss and teams. The word from the ground via Laura Jolly, CA’s excellent women’s cricket writer, is that “Sophie Molineux not warming up with the rest of the Aussie squad,” she tweets. “Looks like her recovery from a corked thigh continues.” That should earn Molly Strano another opportunity.

I wonder whether they’ll be tempted to bite the bullet and pop Perry up the top of the list today? Not that she needs to bat higher than six in this line-up but just to get her right into the thick of the action after falling first ball on Friday. Can’t hurt.

Speaking of the skippers, it is Meg Lanning’s 100th T20 International against Sri Lanka today and what a career it has been so far, the superstar still just 27 years of age. When reflecting on her journey so far we tend to think about her unparalleled ODI record but then you take a look at the numbers and realise she’s made 2661 runs at this level at an average of 35 striking at 117 along the way.

Then there have been the two tons, both record-breaking in their own right. The unbeaten 133 not out against England at Chelmsford during last year’s Women’s Ashes – in just 63 balls, reinforced that she really is the complete modern player.