The former Australian cricketer Lisa Sthalekar feels that the Indian girls’s cricket staff can shut the hole with the highest-ranked Australian facet provided that they alter their strategy and mindset. Indian staff have been spectacular throughout codecs lately with lots of younger cricketers making their mark on the worldwide stage. But they’ve failed to win trophies and titles in ICC tournaments due to Australia’s unparalleled dominance for final twenty years.
Australia bagged their third successive ICC T20 World Cup title in February this yr as they tore aside groups with no resistance all through the match. Australia have recorded six T20 World Cup titles from eight editions whereas India have managed to attain finals solely as soon as, through the 2020 version. Australian girls’s staff additionally bagged the latest ODI World Cup final yr, their seventh title in 50-over cricket because the Indian staff failed to qualify for the knockout stage.
Sthalekar, the India-born cricketer, believes that India can match Australia’s success in worldwide cricket in the event that they consider that they win in any state of affairs. She said that the Australian staff approaches the sport with a totally completely different mindset, which is difficult to adapt.
“When I used to be enjoying and it’s the identical now, the Australian staff believes it could win from any state of affairs, just because it has finished it previously.
I can speak about my technology. So after you have that perception, it is rather exhausting to prepare and coach that. You received to be put in these conditions and also you want to come out of it efficiently to begin believing that (you may win from any state of affairs). For India, they’ve been this shut so many occasions, they only want to recover from the road and the tide will change,” Sthalekar informed PTI.
The former Australian skipper additionally advised that the Indian girls’s staff will profit if they convey in India’s ‘A’ staff which might journey and compete in opposition to worldwide opponents recurrently. She believes that the India A facet will produce extra competitors amongst kids to push for choice in the senior squad.
“Besides the WPL (Women’s Premier League), potentially if they can put together an India A side that travels that will be an important stepping stone to creating a bucket of players who are pushing for selection at the highest level. Once there is a big influx of fighting for positions, then this Indian team would go to the next level. They are the one side that pushes Australia regularly,” Sthalekar added.
