Harmanpreet Kaur, the captain of India, praised her squad for their performance in the just finished three-match ODI series against Australia at home. She did lament, though, that the fielding quality was below standard.
Notably, the recent series allowed the squad to hone their preparations for the major tournament. India and Sri Lanka will co-host the 2019 Women’s World Cup.
“I don’t enjoy being on the losing team. But we played good cricket all through the series. Many lessons for us. We can play our shots and have depth in our batting, as evidenced by the way Sneh and Deepti batted as well as in the most recent game. We are putting a lot of effort on the fielding process. “Unfortunately, we’re still missing those opportunities,” Harmanpreet Kaur said during the ceremony held after the game.
The way that spin-bowling all-rounders Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma batted was praised by Harmanpreet Kaur.
She talked about the Indian team’s abundance of choices. In closing, Harmanpreet Kaur acknowledged that the Women in Blue presented the reigning Women’s World Cup winners with a formidable opponent.
Many lessons and wonderful takeaways. You question me about our combo all the time. The good news is that we can test a variety of combinations because we have so many players now. The goal of the lengthy World Cup is to determine who is the best on any given day. The series was good. We put them through a difficult series,” she continued.
Harmanpreet didn’t have a particularly strong batting series. She scored 11 and 17 in the first two ODIs, with the exception of her 35-ball 52 in the third and final match. In the meantime, Smriti Mandhana, who amassed 300 runs with a strike rate of 138.24, was named Player of the Series. With five wickets at an economy rate of 5.83 in three innings, Kranti Goud was tied for the most wickets taken.
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