India girls’s cricket crew vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has mentioned her aspect is not going to simply be aiming for a podium end on the Commonwealth Video games right here, and that the purpose was to win gold on the quadrennial showpiece starting on July 29.
Cricket is returing to CWG for the primary time in 24 years, with the primary girls’s event to be performed out on the multi-sport occasion. Eight sides will participate throughout 16 matches at Edgbaston, with a winner topped and all of the medals finalised on August 7.
India are in Group A together with Australia, Barbados and Pakistan, whereas Group B has hosts England, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka.India will play their opening sport towards Meg Lanning’s Australia on July 29. India will play arch-rivals Pakistan on July 31.
“All the women are actually excited and everyone knows the sensation. Now we have all watched the Commonwealth and Olympic Video games… that when the Indian flag goes up and we hear the nationwide anthem, I feel everybody is aware of that feeling and positively we’re aiming for gold,” mentioned Mandhana in a video posted by the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI).
“I don’t suppose we’ll simply search for a podium end as a result of when that flag goes larger and the nationwide anthem performs, that’s one of the best feeling. I actually get goose-bumps once I take into consideration (javelin star) Neeraj Chopra profitable gold within the (2020 Tokyo) Olympics,” added Mandhana.
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“So, positively you already know we’ve a possibility to be there and try to do this, in fact not within the Olympics however on the Commonwealth Video games. So all of us are actually excited and we all know the teams (opponents). The teams had been determined lengthy again so we’ve our plans in place for Australia, Pakistan and Barbados. Hopefully, issues work the best way we’ve deliberate,” she added.
Cricket has featured solely as soon as earlier than on the Commonwealth Video games — as a 16-team event on the lads’s aspect — on the Kuala Lumpur Video games, again in 1998.
South Africa claimed gold by beating Australia within the ultimate, chasing down a goal of 184 after Shaun Pollock’s 4/19 (9 overs). Mike Rindel top-scored with 67 (106 balls), with Jacques Kallis’ 44 guaranteeing victory. Within the bronze-medal match, Chris Harris was essential with each bat and ball, joint top-scoring with unbeaten 56 earlier than taking 2/20 (7.4) in a 51-run victory.
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