Having failed to progress beyond the group stage in the T20 World Cup in October, India bounced back with a 2-1 ODI series win against New Zealand at home
Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on Saturday backed the Indian women바카라s team to regain confidence in home conditions during the three-match T20I series against the West Indies, following a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign and a 0-3 defeat in Australia. (More Cricket News)
Having failed to progress beyond the group stage in the T20 World Cup in October, India bounced back with a 2-1 ODI series win against New Zealand at home.
However, their 0-3 loss in the ODI series in Australia has once again put the team under significant pressure.
"After the World Cup, we played against New Zealand, we did really well in the home conditions and Australia tour result was not something which we were expecting but lot of learnings for us,바카라 Kaur told the media here before India바카라s training session ahead of the first T20I against the West Indies.
바카라In India, whenever we (have) played, we (have) played good cricket, the only (disappointing) thing was (the) World Cup and then the Australia tour which didn't go according to our plans but apart from that, if I see in this year, we played really good cricket, we won lot of matches in home conditions."
바카라These things happen and as a team, it's very important for us to stay together and think about all the positives we have done in the past,바카라 she said.
Kaur said India바카라s bowling attack was relatively young in Australia and has learned valuable lessons from the experience. 바카라Our bowling attack was quite young (in Australia) and for them, it was a great learning playing against such a good team where (they could) see how good players play and how they can improve,바카라 she said.
Kaur, however, refused to comment on the exclusion of Shafali Verma for T20Is against West Indies despite the right-handed batter being second highest run-scorer this year.
바카라I would say, ask the right person. I can only talk about the team, (the) team is here and what (all) things we can do to win this series. Regarding Shefali or any other player, (it is) better to ask the right persons,바카라 Kaur replied.
There was very little turnaround time after playing their final T20I in Perth on Wednesday and Kaur acknowledged the scheduling challenges.
"I am not the right person to answer that. You can definitely ask the right person,바카라 she said when asked if the scheduling could바카라ve been better.
바카라To be honest, it is difficult because we are coming from Australia and after the game, only within 4-5 hours we left the country and came back to India ,바카라 she said.
바카라But as a professional, these things happen and we just want to stay motivated and yesterday was a totally off day. We tried to rest well and tomorrow is another game, so looking forward for that.바카라
Kaur said the team had 바카라good talks바카라 on the way back from Australia.
바카라When we were coming back from Australia, we had good talks in the flight because that was the only time when we can talk and think about how we can start this series. We discussed about how we have to go about in this particular series,바카라 she said.
바카라When you have very less time, it's very difficult to reflect on things which we have done in the past. Staying together is something which is very important and which we have been doing. Whatever (is) in our hands, we are doing that to turn things around.바카라
Kaur backed Uttarakhand바카라s Nandini Kashyap and Raghvi Bisht, who received their maiden call-ups for this series, to come good.
바카라Both of them (have) done really well in the (Senior Women's T20) Challenger Trophy and because of that they have got the opportunity. For them, it's a great platform and I hope they will do really well for the team because if we see, we have very limited girls,바카라 Kaur said
바카라(It is) good to see them doing really well in the domestic format and hopefully, they will take the responsibility and start doing well for the country at (the) international level,바카라 Kaur added.