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The previous couple of days have been excruciating for India’s ladies’s cricket group. After struggling an embarrassing ODI sequence defeat in opposition to Australia earlier this week, the group needed to journey for greater than seven thousand kilometres – from Perth to Mumbai – and kit up for a T20I house sequence in opposition to the West Indies, starting on the DY Patil Stadium on Sunday.
A jet-lagged India captain Harmanpreet Kaur admitted on the eve of the sequence opener that it’s tough to arrange with such a brief turnaround time. Nevertheless, she evaded questions on the scheduling, citing it was past her management.
Having misplaced all of the three video games in opposition to Australia, Harmanpreet’s captaincy has been underneath scanner and because the group goals to bounce again, it wants to repair the weak hyperlinks.
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Smriti Mandhana has had a exceptional outing – scoring 4 centuries in a calendar yr in ladies’s ODIs – although the general batting division has didn’t step up in crunch conditions, and that’s one thing the group administration wants to handle.
“It’s really tough when you are going through this patch. While coming back from Australia, we had good talks on the flight and we discussed how to start afresh against the West Indies,” Harmanpreet stated.
Whereas the truth that India has gained every of its final eight T20Is in opposition to the West Indies within the shortest format since November 2019 will increase the group’s confidence, it wants to make sure its batting division takes extra duty, within the absence of Shafali Verma, who wasn’t thought-about for the sequence, regardless of scoring 531 runs in 20 T20Is this yr at 33.18 with a strike charge of 126.73. The captain, who scored two fifties in her final two T20I innings, must anchor the middle-order .
In a baffling name, the selectors ignored quick bowler Arundhati Reddy, who recorded the second-best figures of 10-2-26-4 for any Indian in ODIs in Australia only a few days in the past, and handed maiden call-ups tp Nandini Kashyap and Raghvi Bist.
Whereas Harmanpreet was assured that her group would bounce again in acquainted circumstances, it gained’t be simple because the West Indies comes into the sequence with spectacular statistics – having gained 9 of its 13 T20Is this yr.
As skipper Hayley Matthews said that her aspect shall be hoping to play some ‘really good cricket’ to tame India at house, the main focus shall be on the captain and younger Qiana Joseph. The comeback of the seasoned Deandra Dottin will increase the visiting group’s confidence forward of an thrilling sequence.
Match begins at 7pm
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