Proud of the best way ladies got here again after loss to Pakistan: Mandhana

India’s stand-in captain Smriti Mandhana lauded her crew’s complete 59-run victory over Bangladesh within the Women’s Asia Cup, terming it as a “good comeback” inside 24 hours of dropping to Pakistan in a low-scoring contest.

India, now with 4 wins out of 5 video games, are via to the semi-finals of the continental occasion. “It was disappointing in the last match (versus Pakistan). It’s good to comeback after that loss, really proud of the girls. Today it was a total team performance,” Mandhana mentioned after the match. While she herself contributed 47 off 38 balls, the common vice-captain was all reward for younger Shafali Verma and the gifted Jemimah Rodrigues. “Shafali batted effectively, and in addition Jemimah performed effectively.

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We may have scored 10 runs runs extra whereas batting. We needed to hold bowling dot balls, and we needed to wait for his or her batters to make errors, which they did. Our bowlers bowled very well,” she added.

Player-of-the-match Shafali, who additionally had a career-best bowling figures of two/10, admitted that pitch was not conducive for stroke-play.

“I am always ready to give my best for the team (with the bat and ball). It was a bit difficult pitch for batting as the ball kept low. I have put in a lot of hardwork and want to thank my family and friends for their support. “We are very happy with our performance, everyone played really well.” Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana blamed poor execution within the Powerplay whereas bowling as the explanation for her crew’s defeat.

“We didn’t bowl well in the powerplay. We bowled too many loose balls. We couldn’t get many runs in our powerplay either. Our main bowlers couldn’t execute their plans,” she mentioned.