The BCCI might need been blamed up to now for the shortage of concentrate on ladies’s cricket they usually actually must stroll the discuss however the issue goes past them. India can blame the misfortune of a no-ball towards South Africa for his or her ouster, however in addition they contributed to their very own downfall.
Archaic batting templates, worrying variety of dot balls, frequent modifications within the enjoying XI, lack of athleticism and a few uninspiring captaincy meant final version’s shedding finalists didn’t qualify for the semi-final stage.
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Old template
Other high groups like Australia, England and South Africa have moved on from the outdated strategy to white ball cricket. The Indian workforce have stepped on to that path, however are shifting too slowly in the direction of enjoying this new model of cricket.
Sample their chase towards New Zealand, who set a 261-run goal. India performed out 85 dot balls within the first 20 overs; all in all, they remained mute for 153 balls. Not that that is only a World-Cup aberration. Last June, they performed out 181 dot balls in a recreation towards England. The alarm bells had been ringing but it surely seems nobody was listening.
Former captain Anjum Chopra reckons India lacks the ammunition and the experience in strike rotations. “Top groups have actually moved on concerning big-hitting and strike rotations. In the case of India, my reply might be each Yes and No.
“Yes, because we are still trying to get into that template, where we can score 280 plus consistently or chase down big totals. We are still trying to figure out and be consistent about reaching these scores whether batting or chasing,” Anjum Chopra informed The Indian Express.
“No, because strike rotation and big-hitting has been the challenge for many years for India now. Big-hitting has slightly improved, but that power-hitting in the last five and seven overs is still missing. I guess we are still moving slowly and steadily towards the brand of cricket,” she added of the glacial tempo of upgrading.
India’s greatest nemesis on the World Cup was their sluggish strategy. (Twitter/ BCCI Women)
Dot-ball drawback
India’s greatest nemesis on the World Cup was their sluggish strategy. Overall, they performed 1054 dot balls within the seven matches. In different phrases, they performed nearly three ODIs with out scoring a single run. Australia, probably the most dominating aspect of the event, consumed 959 dot balls within the round-robin league, 95 fewer than India. Interestingly, relating to power-hitting, India leads the six-hitting chart. Their batters struck 15 sixes, probably the most within the event. But different scoring photographs had been discovered wanting.
Anjum, who was the commentator with the host broadcaster through the World Cup, feels that Indian batters must replace their expertise.
“The approach is straightforward. Reduce the dot ball percentage. The Indian team plays a lot of dot balls, and there is too much reliance on dead defence shots. I guess the few aspects on which Team India must work are rotation of strike, playing with soft hands, improving the running between the wickets, dropping the ball, and running for a quick single. These skills have to be practiced and learned very seriously. The Indian team has stroke players, but they cannot rotate strike at will. That skill has to be incorporated whether they are setting the target or chasing,” stated Anjum.
Sneh Rana of India celebrates. (AP/PTI)
Lack of athleticism
India’s floor fielding all through the occasion was removed from spectacular. They fumbled and dropped regulation possibilities. There was room for enchancment in operating between the wicket too. Senior batters had been struggling to run twos and threes. Shafali Verma’s run out within the essential match towards South Africa highlighted the issue.
“Look, the Indian team is obviously working on the fitness aspect. It is not that they are unfit players, but fitness and fielding are something you can always work on. Even if you are super fit and a gun fielder, there’s always a scope for improvement, sky’s the limit, and there is no benchmark. Every player has to improve individually, and the results will be out there at the park,” stated Anjum.
Back-to-back defeats towards England and Australia doesn’t bode effectively for India Women. (Twitter/BCCI Domestic)
Did they miss Jemimah, Pandey?
The omission of Jemimah Rodrigues and skilled pacer Shikha Pandey from the World Cup has raised eyebrows. But they had been ignored attributable to their lack of type. Jemimah misplaced her place within the ODI aspect after a poor run in England in July, and whereas her stellar efficiency within the Hundred helped her make a comeback within the shortest format, it wasn’t sufficient to e book a spot on the World Cup.
“I still feel Jemi should have been here even if not in 15, then in 18 for sure, but having said that, I don’t think she would have found a place in the playing eleven. Yastika Bhatia absolutely grabbed the opportunity while batting at 3. Same goes for Shikha. She would have been definitely a good addition if she had been in the best form, bowling alongside Jhulan Goswami. You never know, the experience of Jhulan, which was missing in the tournament and maybe the experience of Shikha could have come in. But for that, you have to drop Meghna Singh, who has done well in the last five – seven months,” she stated.
On Poonam Yadav’s lack of recreation time, Anjum stated: “The Indian team was happy with the three regular spinners (Sneh Rana, Deepti Sharma and Rajeshwari Gayakwad), and for Poonam Yadav to come in, they had to drop a bowler or an all-rounder, but that would have changed India’s balance.”
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Dropping Shafali
Before the event, Indian captain Mithali Raj was all reward for Verma. Although the flamboyant batter was going by means of a lean run, she is somebody who can change the course of the sport in a couple of overs. Shafali was dropped for 3 straight video games after her failure within the opening match towards Pakistan. She confirmed a glimpse of her excellence towards South Africa and the way she toyed with Shabnim Ismail, the event’s quickest bowler.
“Dropping Shafali Verma after the first match was absolutely not justified. It was a high-pressure game for a youngster coming in and playing her first World Cup. You can expect a false shot coming from a player but dropping Shafali and not backing her throughout the World Cup sends out a wrong signal. If team management is dropping any player, it gives you the signal that you are out of form and the team is looking beyond you,” says Anjum.
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Not utilizing Harmanpreet’s bowling
Harmanpreet scored 318 runs within the event and was the second-highest run-getter for India after opener Mandhana (327 runs). But surprisingly, she didn’t bowl till the final recreation towards South Africa.
The India vice-captain offered India with the much-needed breakthrough with the wicket of the event’s main run-scorer Laura Wolvaardt, and later she trapped South African skipper Sune Luus.
“Harmanpreet not bowling was another mystery. Why was Harmanpreet not used throughout the tournament? Even against South Africa, when all the resources were exhausted then, she was thrown the ball, and there again, she bowled eight overs. I wish she could have bowled her full quota, and who knows, the Indian team might have ended up on a winning side. She was under bowled. It was like under utilisation of their quality resources by the Indian team,” lamented Anjum.
The coach conundrum
It has been musical chairs relating to the coaches. Four coaches have been modified up to now 5 years.
Former Baroda cricketer Tushar Arothe, who led the workforce to the ultimate within the 2017 World Cup, stepped down a yr later, 5 months previous to the Women’s World T20. One of the explanations for the alleged discord was Arothe’s coaching strategies.
Two necessary follow classes of roughly two and a half hours every within the morning and late afternoon and an non-obligatory afternoon session strained the connection between the coach and senior gamers. BCCI acquired complaints from senior gamers, particularly T20 skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, about his coaching strategies.
Ramesh Powar, the present coach of the Indian ladies’s workforce, changed Arothe in August 2018. A number of months later, Powar was sacked from the identical place following a fallout with Mithali.
In flip, Mithali had then accused the previous India cricketer of bias after the Harmanpreet-led T20 workforce dropped the veteran batter for the all-important World Cup semi-final towards England.
In December 2018, former India opener W V Raman was appointed head coach. During his stint, India completed runners-up on the T20 World Cup in 2020.
In May 2021, in a stunning transfer because the workforce seemingly did effectively beneath him, Raman was not retained as the top coach of the senior ladies’s workforce by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), which picked Ramesh Powar for the job.
Going ahead
The World Cup exit could also be a bitter tablet to swallow, and there is perhaps modifications within the teaching workers with the T20 World Cup scheduled to be performed in South Africa subsequent yr from February 9 to 26. A full-fledged ladies’s IPL from subsequent yr is a risk, and it could possibly result in a radical shift in ladies’s cricket.
However, Anjum sees it otherwise. For her, the current must be sorted first earlier than fascinated about the longer term. “The present is absolutely essential. There is a T20 World Cup scheduled to be played next year; I am eagerly looking to see how this Indian team will go forward with new support staff and coaches coming in,” she signed off. If the current is uncared for, what hope lies for the longer term?
