Star batter Smriti Mandhana, the architect of India’s win towards Australia within the second ladies’s T20 on Sunday, described the sport as probably the most entertaining matches she has been a part of.
India gained the match by way of Super Over after the scores had been tied at 187 to degree the five-match sequence 1-1.
“Happy to see such wickets prepared for women’s cricket, you’ll get high scores, high run chases. I think this is one of the most entertaining games we’ve all been a part of,” Mandhana mentioned on the post-match presentation.
“When they were batting, I realised it was an amazing wicket, I had my eyes on a big score. Didn’t want to make the same mistake as the last innings,” mentioned Mandhana, who was named participant of the match for her 79 off 49 balls.
She mentioned everybody within the Indian staff loved chasing targets however the staff “also needs to work on setting totals”.
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur mentioned her gamers learnt so much from the earlier recreation which the house aspect misplaced by 9 wickets.
“We backed ourselves. If someone could get a bit more, then we could have got even 200. So that was the plan today, to back ourselves,” she mentioned.
On Richa Ghosh who made 26 not out off 13 balls, Kaur mentioned, “I used to be all the time backing her, even when she wasn’t getting runs. Today we noticed what we might do along with her energy hitting.
“Fielding is something we need to keep working at, we gave too many runs today. Bowling was better today, because this wicket was too easy to bat on, nothing for the bowlers. Fielding is the only thing we need to improve from today.” Australia captain Alyssa Healy mentioned, “Missed a bit with the ball tonight and so they cashed in. What an awesome advertisment for ladies’s cricket this has been, with 40,000 folks right here tonight.
“I believe we missed a bit with the ball, gave them a chase. We did nicely to hold in there ultimately and get it to the Super Over, India had been throughout us in that chase. We fought nicely to get us to that place, fought until the very finish.
