This one, though, is bound to leave them confused. Australia had entered the game unbeaten in 16 ODIs, breezed through the league stage of the World Cup, and yet found a way to stumble at the penultimate hurdle. As captain, Healy bore the unenviable task of making sense of it all in the immediate aftermath.

"I think ultimately we just weren't sharp enough probably today, probably in all three facets, definitely to give ourselves the opportunity to win that semi-final," Healy said. "I think we did pretty well to hang in there. We created a lot of opportunities and let ourselves down in that regard. So probably sitting here disappointed knowing that we sort of did that to ourselves a little bit. Not taking anything away from the Indian performance. I thought they played really well. But yeah, there's a little bit of an element of we let ourselves down a little bit.