Last Update: February 24, 2023, 16:15 IST
East India Captain Anjum Chopra pointed out that in the 2023 ICC Women’s T20, Australia faced a five-run defeat in the semi-finals. World Cup, there was no support from the fielders towards the bowlers in executing their strategies.
in a five-run defeat at Newlands Cricket On the ground, India ended a dreadful day with lapses in ground fielding and catching galore. Meg Lanning was dropped by wicketkeeper-batsman Richa Ghosh at one and further survived a stumping attempt at nine.
Shafali Verma dropped a simple catch by Beth Mooney at long-on when she was on 32. Apart from three dropped chances, there were a large number of misfields which got Australia to post 172/4. Anjum was also disappointed with the bowling strategy of giving width almost all the time.
“We fell behind in every department. I think it was good that Australia were batting first – it gave India a chance to chase. But I didn’t understand his bowling strategy because it was a slow wicket for which he kept protection on the boundary square of the wicket, he asked his spinners to bowl short and out. But if every bowler bowls like this, how will they take wickets?”
Taking this as a bowling strategy, no support was found in terms of fielding – it has to be on top. She dropped too many straight catches, and if we talk about Shafali Verma, she needs a lot of brushing up as young players are expected to field well at these crucial moments and do it with gusto. do with.”
Anjum said, “Our bowling didn’t give away much runs in the beginning, though it is expected that you would expect runs in the final overs, reasons aside, at the end of the day you have to chase runs to win the game.” Will happen.” Former India men’s player Aakash Chopra on JioCinema’s daily show #AAKASHVANI.
India were in trouble at 28/3. Jemimah then smashed 43 off just 24 balls and with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur scoring 52, they were involved in a magnificent 69 off 41 balls, leaving India favorites to chase down 173. .
But after passing the ten-over mark, Jemima fell while trying to loft a short ball over Alyssa Healy’s head and gave a thin edge to the keeper off Darcy Brown’s bowling. Harmanpreet was unfortunately run out in the 15th over when her bat got stuck while trying to reach the crease. Those twin setbacks meant India never quite recovered from it and ended on 167/8, marking another ‘so close, yet’ occasion for Harmanpreet & Co.
Anjum further explained how the Indian team can improve going forward, especially on the mental side of things.
“I think you need to go backwards before moving forward. Just go back to the 2022 50-over World Cup and see what happened from there. We knew the 2023 T20 World Cup would be in South Africa. So what have we prepared from there? Who were the players that we were expecting?
It was expected that this is the player who will go with us in T20Is. What preparation did you do with him and how much preparation did the player do to play in this World Cup? And then, coming into this World Cup, what happened to him? Where did it go? Is it just about skill? Or is it related to mindset? said the former player.
“Or rather say that the heart should be a little strong while entering the big competition because if you are not strong, if you do not have that courage, then no matter how much you prepare, you will fall short in the end. So before going ahead, I think it is very important to assess where we were, where we are and how we can move forward.”
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