India have reached not less than the semifinals within the final three editions of the Ladies’s T20 World Cup however have not gotten their fingers on the silverware but.
Harmanpreet Kaur’s India ladies’s cricket crew claimed a fairly comfy 20-run victory of their Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 warm-up match over the West Indies. Dealing with the 2016 champions on the Dubai Stadium, a venue the place they’ll play 3 of their 4 group stage matches, Crew India weren’t at their finest with the bat. Bowling wasn’t good both, however 5 of the 7 bowlers used had been splendid.
The batting failure wasn’t an aberration. For a short time now, openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma have given a rollicking begin, which has been aided by Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh at numbers 5 and 6. The purpose of concern isn’t Deepti Sharma both, who involves bat after Jemimah and Richa, however the two batters that come between them and the openers.
In opposition to the West Indies, solely Rodrigues appeared good. She scored a gritty half-century, which helped Crew India attain 141 whereas not one of the different batters even crossed the 25-run mark. We additionally noticed one other shuffle within the batting order. Now we have seen batters come and go on the quantity 3 spot since Yastika Bhatia obtained injured in April.
Batting order re-shuffled
Dayalan Hemalatha, Uma Chetry and Sajana Sajeevan had been all at quantity 3 within the 2024 Ladies’s T20 World Cup in Yastika’s absence. Nevertheless, none of them appeared to get going. Regardless of her coming again, yesterday, Harmanpreet Kaur tried her hand on the place however lasted simply 3 balls. This meant that Jemimah moved to 4 and Yastika went down to five.
With only one extra warm-up sport left earlier than they face New Zealand on October 4, one has to query why they’re attempting new issues now. If Yastika performed at 3 till April, why can’t she do it now? Her sport isn’t suited at quantity 5, as she lacks the facility sport one wants on the finish of the innings. She must get her eye in earlier than she will be able to get going, and you’ll’t try this at 5 except you lose early wickets.
Additionally, Harmanpreet herself isn’t within the biggest of contact. Since 2019, she has scored runs at a strike price of 120 as soon as. She didn’t even obtain a bid within the Ladies’s Hundred and Massive Bash public sale; that’s how far she’s fallen. Furthermore, she’s been batting at 4 for some time now. 2474 of her 3426 WT20I runs have are available that place; why does she want to advertise herself when she’s struggling to make massive runs and strike rapidly?
Individuals are labeling Crew India as one of many favourites for the Ladies’s World Cup 2024, but when they’re chopping and altering simply 4 days earlier than the occasion begins, how assured can one be of their possibilities?
India’s squad for Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024
Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajana Sajeevan.
India’s Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 Schedule
| Date | Crew 1 | Crew 2 | Venue | Time (IST) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 4 | India | New Zealand | Dubai | 7:30 |
| October 6 | India | Pakistan | Dubai | 3:30 |
| October 9 | India | Sri Lanka | Dubai | 7:30 |
| October 13 | India | Australia | Sharjah | 7:30 |
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