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Rumesh Ratnayake’s squad was astatine the receiving extremity of Smriti Mandhana’s bat successful the 4th T20I connected Sunday. But, that didn’t halt him from admiring her grace.
The Sri Lankan manager was, successful fact, reminded of idiosyncratic helium utilized to vessel successful Tests successful his days.
“Smriti looked a small spot similar David Gower,” helium said. “I was really speaking astir that to W.V. Raman. She has that aforesaid laidback benignant to her batting, a lazy elegance. It is ever bully to ticker a left-hander bat. And her scoring 10,000 runs successful planetary cricket is simply a immense achievement.”
Ratnayake was gladsome that Sri Lanka was yet capable to enactment up a bully combat against India aft being outplayed successful the archetypal 3 T20Is.
“Someone tin accidental we mislaid the flip successful the archetypal 3 matches, but we should person done overmuch amended than we did,” said the erstwhile pacer who played 23 Tests and 70 ODIs and took 149 wickets from those games. “We gave distant a batch of casual runs, with escaped balls, but I americium not taking thing distant from the skillsets of the Indian batters.”
One of those batters who smashed the Lankan bowlers around, Richa Ghosh, said she wanted to people speedy runs aft she was promoted up the order.
“My motto is to people runs and supply a bully decorativeness to the team,” she said. “The wicket was bully for batting.”
She said the World Cup triumph had changed the lives of the Indian players. “We person a lukewarm invited from the public,” she said. “Now radical cognize who Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh oregon Shafali Verma is... And that is simply a large thing”.
