Alyssa Healy pleased with Australia's depth

Australia secured an emphatic nine-wicket win in the second T20I in Sydney, after restricting Sri Lanka to a paltry 84/8. The bowlers were excellent, strangling the scoring rate since the beginning and struck at regular intervals, after the visitors elected to bat.

With Delissa Kimmince and Ashleigh Gardner out of the side due to some lingering niggles, their replacements Nicola Carey and Erin Burns put up a wonderful display, proving the unwavering strength of Australia's bench.

Healy, who was impressed with their performance, believes the country's female cricketing talent pool is quite deep and that bodes well for the hosts with the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020 only five months away.

"I think every single person in this squad can contribute at any point in time," Healy said during the post-match press conference. "There's probably another eight or nine players that are outside this group putting their hand up and wanting selection for that T20 World Cup, so it's great to see that we've got the depth and the talent there that they can come out and perform when need be."

Carey, who was only playing her second T20I, finished with a spell of 1/9, equalling the record for the most economical four overs bowled in a women's T20I in Australia. Healy, however, is not very surprised about Carey's performance, who she feels has been a strong T20 player in domestic tournaments as well.

"She's been really good in that T20 format for a long period, especially in the WBBL," Healy said. "For her to get a crack tonight in the Aussie colours – she did herself no harm in putting her hand up for next game if DK [Kimmince] is not fit."

The wicket-keeper was also all praise for Burns, who recently made her debut at 31. The right-hander walked in to bat at the fall of Healy's wicket and smashed an unbeaten 30 off 18 balls and hit the winning runs in the 10th over.

"It was great to see Burnsy let loose tonight with the bat at the end of the night," Healy said. "She's been such a great talent in our domestic system for a long period of time. Now that she's having a crack at being a full-time cricketer at 31, she's really flourishing."

The 2-0 unassailable lead means that Australia have now registered their fifth consecutive bilateral series win. They still haven't given a chance to the 22-year-old Heather Grahams, who was named in the squad ahead of the Caribbean tour.

"We've got Heather Graham sitting on the bench who hasn't had a crack in this series or the series just gone so I'm sure she'll be chomping at the bit as well," Healy said. "I've got no doubt if she gets an opportunity she's going to come out and do the same job."

The third and the final T20I will be played at the same venue on Wednesday, 2 October.