Women’s T20 World Cup 2023: India ‘confident’ Smriti Mandhana can be match to play towards West Indies

Women’s T20 World Cup 2023: Smriti Mandhana missed out on taking part in towards Pakistan, however is anticipated to take the sphere towards the West Indies.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 14, 2023 23:21 IST

Women’s T20 WC: India ‘confident’ Mandhana can be match to play towards West Indies. Courtesy: PTI

By India Today Web Desk: India coach Troy Cooley stated that Smriti Mandhana is more than likely to participate within the Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 match towards West Indies to be performed on Wednesday, February 14 on the Newlands in Cape Town.

Mandhana missed the opening recreation towards Pakistan that India received by seven wickets on the identical venue. The southpaw sustained a finger harm throughout a warm-up match towards Australia, after which she didn’t participate within the second observe recreation towards Bangladesh.

However, India, captained by Harmanpreet Kaur, are pleased along with her progress forward of the match towards Hayley Matthews’ West Indies.

“Yeah, she’s been working very hard. It’ll obviously be assessed after today. She did everything [that] was needed to be done today and from us, we’ll look at how she pulls up. But we’re pretty confident. She got through the session today and did everything she needed to do,” Cooley was quoted as saying to the reporters.

India are at the moment positioned second within the Group B factors desk after their thumping win over Bismah Maroof’s Pakistan. Jemimah Rodrigues grew to become the Player of the Match after she stayed unbeaten on 53 runs off 38 balls with the assistance of eight fours.

After being requested to chase down 150, India romped house with one over to spare. Richa Ghosh additionally performed a match-winning knock of 31 off 20 balls with 5 fours.

With the required run price round 10 within the final 4 overs, Richa and Jemimah stepped on the fuel. After the match towards the West Indies, India will face Heather Knight’s England and Laura Delany’s Ireland.

Edited By:

sabyasachi chowdhury

Published On:

Feb 14, 2023