Harmanpreet Kaur battled herself to manage her tears through the post-match presentation following India’s loss to Australia by 5 runs. “Can’t feel unluckier than this. We got the momentum back with Jemi (Rodrigues). To lose from here, we weren’t expecting this,” said Harmanpreet, as she struggled for phrases.
Kaur and Jemimah’s partnership made it very easy in direction of the tip for India, however like all the time in main matches, the group choked ultimately and it was all fueled by the skipper’s unlucky and premature run-out.
“The way I got run out, (it) can’t be unluckier than that. Putting in the effort was important and we were happy to go to the last ball. We wanted to fight till the last ball. Even after losing the first two wickets, we knew we had a good batting line-up. I should give credit to Jemimah, she gave us the momentum. Happy to see some good performances,” she added.
On the group’s sloppy effort within the discipline, Kaur quipped, “We once more gave some simple catches away. When you must win, you must take your possibilities. We can solely be taught from these errors.
Chasing 173, India received off to the worst of the attainable begins, dropping three fast wickets. Jemimah and Harmanpreet Kaur stitched collectively an incredible partnership to get India on track for a stupendous victory., however it went a bit downhill from there on. Kaur received out to an unlucky run-out and Rich Ghosh, who has been in wealthy kind all through the match, adopted quickly after.
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It all got here right down to Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana and the equation learn 20 off the final 2 overs for India. The pair may solely handle 4 runs within the penultimate over and 16, ultimately, proved an excessive amount of for India and the Aussies received the sport by 5 runs. Fair to say, India, as soon as once more, choked in India as a result of, on the midway mark, it was their recreation to lose.
(Inputs PTI)
