India’s skipper Harmanpreet Kaur has urged her crew to enhance forward of their potential semifinal conflict in opposition to Australia within the ongoing Women’s T20 World Cup. India, led by the Smriti Mandhana helped India to a five-run win on the DL Method after the match was known as off due to rain on Monday (February 20). The win noticed India ebook their semifinal berth whereas they now want to enhance in some elements of their sport.
Harmanpreet requires enchancment
“Dot balls are one thing which [are] already worrying us. In the subsequent sport, we would love to see some enchancment in that space additionally,” Harmanpreet Kaur stated after the win in opposition to Ireland.
“Against England, we played too many dot balls,” Harmanpreet added.
The Indian crew had star batter Smriti Mandhana to thank after she scored 87 off 57 deliveries. She together with Shafali Verma put a gap stand of 62 runs. The opening partnership made certain India reached a complete of 155/6 in 20 overs.
“Things like that we’ve got already been discussing in crew conferences. But typically, when the opposite crew is bowling too properly, on the finish of the day, these wickets are one thing once you rating 150, that is a par rating for you.
“World Cup video games are at all times one thing the place each the groups are at all times below strain. I feel these matches, if 150 is on the board, you at all times [have] the higher hand. We should not placing an excessive amount of strain on ourselves. We are simply going [out] there and understanding what situations are there and simply taking part in in accordance to the state of affairs,” Harmanpreet added.
Rain performs spoilsport for Ireland
Chasing 156, Ireland misplaced two wickets within the first over itself however recovered properly to put up 44 after the primary six overs. Rain gods although had different plans, and it began pouring down, with Ireland nonetheless 5 runs behind the DLS par rating. The match, because it turned out, didn’t resume and India took dwelling the laurels.
