India, Oct. 31 -- "Here we go again." If all fairytales begin with "Once upon a time.", then the not-fairytales are bound by "Here we go again."

"Here we go again." was the underlying theme of much of Thursday night's first half of the Women's World Cup semifinal in Navi Mumbai. Australia, unbeaten Australia, the seven-times champions, piled on the runs. Phoebe Litchfield, all of 22, made the most magnificent hundred. Ellyse Perry, the classy No. 3, weighed in with 77. And Ashleigh Gardner, the No. 1 all-rounder bar none, steadied a slightly rocking ship with a blazing 63.

"Here we go again.", one felt, after the Aussies amassed 338, feeding off their batting might and helped along by an unusually sloppy India, who gifted runs galore wi...