Unperturbed by the absence of a head coach for over six months, the Indian girls’s group vice-captain Smriti Mandhana most popular to have a look at the silver lining, saying suggestions shared by a distinct set of teaching employees shall be advantageous.
Since December final yr, when Ramesh Powar was transferred to the NCA (National Cricket Academy), the ladies’s cricket group has been with no head coach. The aspect needed to play the T20 World Cup in February with out the top of the teaching employees.
“The BCCI has been hunting for a long-term coach and we will have one soon,” Mandhana mentioned on the pre-match press convention forward of India’s third ODI towards Bangladesh.
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“It’s not a very big thing in terms of players. We want to play the best brand of cricket we can. All the coaching staff that has come in has been really helpful. Sometimes it’s an advantage, new coaching staff comes with new tips and new positives. If I take it very positively then it’s a good thing,” the opener added.
In April, the BCCI determined to get rid of the follow of appointing teaching employees on an ad-hoc foundation and the Indian girls’s cricket group assist employees will henceforth get long-term contracts.
Domestic stalwart Amol Muzumdar is prone to develop into the Indian girls’s cricket group head coach.
“For us as a team, it is not important what is happening around us. How we play our brand of cricket is more important. We will have to wait for the series to finish and see what happens,” she mentioned.
The swashbuckling batter has been struggling for runs within the ongoing tour of Bangladesh. Mandhana managed a complete of 52 runs within the three-match T20I collection whereas she made 11 and 36 within the first and second ODIs, respectively.
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“I have been batting well in the nets and in the matches I have been getting starts. It doesn’t happen very often that I am middling the ball and still not getting runs for the team but I have been working on it. The last match for me was pretty positive, the way I was able to get the team off to a decent start but threw my wicket away. It’s more about application. My batting is going well but application hasn’t been always the way I applied,” Mandhana mentioned.
The Indian group succumbed to its first-ever WODI loss to Bangladesh within the collection opener and Mandhana mentioned the host has developed as a aspect previously yr.
“We played them in the Asia Cup last year, they have grown since then. On these sort of wickets their bowling attack is good. They have played a very good brand of cricket. They will be coming hard at us so we won’t be taking anything lightly. The deciding factor (for us) has been batting. Getting ourselves to a good score will be important. We have to be good in all three departments,” Mandhana mentioned.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com