MUMBAI: India captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Wednesday attributed the 21-run defeat to Australia within the third ladies’s T20 International resulting from their incapability to rotate strike.
Harmanpreet stated her aspect had fancied their probabilities to chase down 173 however the too many dot balls the hosts batters performed meant that they had been restricted to 151 for 7 in the long run.
“Yes, definitely, getting them on 170-odd runs, we really thought we were in with a chance,” Harmanpreet stated on the post-match presentation.
“But I think there were few overs where we scored less than 6 overs, that cost us. We had a lot of dot balls after hitting boundary, we need to rotate strike, but that didn’t happen.
“One of us wished to remain until the tip, however we needed to hit boundaries and generally you lose wickets whenever you play like that. We have a deep batting line-up now so it isn’t like we now have to maintain eager about somebody taking part in until the tip.”
She said she was happy for the likes of Anjali Sarvani and Renuka Singh.
“Yes positively, the best way they’re taking duty and taking part in for the group is excellent to look at. We are impressed with how they’re bowling.”
Australia captain Alyssa Healy said, “Tonight, the highest order form of bought out of the best way and the center order got here and did an incredible job.
“The impact that Harris had was remarkable and I thought Ellyse Perry played an outstanding knock. Very proud of the batting group.”
Harmanpreet stated her aspect had fancied their probabilities to chase down 173 however the too many dot balls the hosts batters performed meant that they had been restricted to 151 for 7 in the long run.
“Yes, definitely, getting them on 170-odd runs, we really thought we were in with a chance,” Harmanpreet stated on the post-match presentation.
“But I think there were few overs where we scored less than 6 overs, that cost us. We had a lot of dot balls after hitting boundary, we need to rotate strike, but that didn’t happen.
“One of us wished to remain until the tip, however we needed to hit boundaries and generally you lose wickets whenever you play like that. We have a deep batting line-up now so it isn’t like we now have to maintain eager about somebody taking part in until the tip.”
She said she was happy for the likes of Anjali Sarvani and Renuka Singh.
“Yes positively, the best way they’re taking duty and taking part in for the group is excellent to look at. We are impressed with how they’re bowling.”
Australia captain Alyssa Healy said, “Tonight, the highest order form of bought out of the best way and the center order got here and did an incredible job.
“The impact that Harris had was remarkable and I thought Ellyse Perry played an outstanding knock. Very proud of the batting group.”