The Indian women’s cricket team, which entered the Commonwealth Games for the first time Captain Harmanpreet Kaur spoke on improving the faltering batting, had a good chance to start with a gold medal. Due to not performing better again in the final match, he missed out on the gold medal and had to be satisfied with the silver medal. In the match between Australia and India, Australia won the match by 9 runs.
Captain Harmanpreet said after the match that every time in big finals we are repeating the same mistakes in batting
In this match too, the Indian batting faltered in the same way as it was seen during the T20 World Cup against Australia in 2020 and the ODI World Cup against England in 2017. Team captain Harmanpreet said after the match that every time in big finals, we are repeating the same mistakes in batting. This is something the team has to improve upon. Don’t make mistakes like this in the league stage or bilateral series. It has made a home in our mind somewhere.
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Harmanpreet said that she is always on the lookout for an extra batsman. Jemima after losing two wickets and the way she batted was the need of the hour. The team needed to play with restraint. The team was really close to the target.
50 runs needed in last 6 overs
India needed 50 runs in the last six overs and had eight wickets left. India should have won easily then but lost five wickets within 13 runs due to poor shot selection by the batsmen. Harmanpreet and Jemima Rodriguez shared a 96-run partnership but both of them lost their wickets after playing poor shots.
Better performance in Commonwealth Games
India may have lost in the final but Harmanpreet is happy and satisfied with her team’s performance during the Commonwealth Games. The Indian captain said that we were close to winning the gold medal but overall our performance was very good. We were participating in this competition for the first time and we are glad that we won the silver medal.
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Display of sportsmanship
On being part of the Australian XI despite all-rounder Tahila McGrath being tested positive for COVID-19, the Indian skipper said that she had informed us about it before the toss. This is something that was not under the control of the team. The Commonwealth Games had to decide on this and she was not too sick. So the team decided to play. We had to show sportsmanship. Happily, Tahila was not denied.
