New Delhi, July 3 -- LONDON - Nat Sciver-Brunt walked to the crease at The Oval on Wednesday with England at 23 for 3, a calf injury just behind her and a Women's T20 World Cup semifinal just ahead, and proceeded to build the largest partnership in the history of this stage of the tournament alongside Heather Knight, carrying England into a final against Australia at Lord's on Sunday.

She described it outside The Oval afterward as something that accumulated in the tunnel before the game, the weight of three weeks away from international cricket landing at once. She had missed three England matches with a calf injury. "I was very nervous going in," she told reporters, "and I suppose quite emotional about it. I suppose trying to live up to...