For many overseas cricketers, India is becoming something of a second home these days but despite the increasing familiarity with the country, Australia are preparing to embrace the unknowns at the upcoming women's ODI World Cup .

It's a situation that will confront all the teams in the competition - even to a degree joint-hosts India - given the mix of venues. The Holkar Stadium in Indore has never hosted women's internationals, Guwahati's Barsapara Stadium hasn't staged women's ODIs and its last women's T20Is were in 2019, and Visakhapatnam's previous ODIs were in 2014. Navi Mumbai, the late replacement for Bengaluru, while having staged Tests and T20Is, hasn't yet been used for the 50-over format in women's cricket.

Then there's the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo to throw in the m

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