Team India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur discovered herself on the receiving finish of shock towards her post-match feedback after the Women in Blue misplaced the second T20I towards Australia in Navi Mumbai on Sunday, January 7. After dropping the toss, the Indian staff could not sew partnerships and common wickets meant that they might muster solely 130 runs of their 20 overs, which the world champions chased down in 19 overs, after they have been capable of stretch the recreation with a few late wickets.
In her evaluation of the recreation and the staff’s bowling efficiency at the post-match presentation, Harmanpreet stated, “[While Bowling] we have been getting these alternatives and taking wickets in the center, that is a constructive. If Shreyanka was on course in the nineteenth over, issues would have been completely different however these shut video games assist to establish areas to enhance.
“We have played these games a lot of time but this time we have a few new faces, this young side is looking very positive and I’m sure they will keep improving,” she added.
Former India and Karnataka cricketer Dodda Ganesh was one in every of many who got here down closely on Harmanpreet for blaming the 21-year-old Shreyanka Patil, who got here in to bowl the nineteenth over with simply 15 runs left to win for Australia. “Throwing a 19yo [21] kid under the bus is not done,” Ganesh wrote on X (previously Twitter).
Phoebe Litchfield hit a few boundaries in the first three deliveries to kill the recreation then and there as Australia romped residence with an entire over left. The collection stands levelled 1-1 and the Indian staff might want to come again with a greater efficiency with the bat as the bowlers have completed effectively in each the video games. Apart from Deepti Sharma, who scored 30, nobody transformed into an enormous one after getting begins whereas Shafali Verma and Harmanpreet registered single-digit scores.
