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The Women successful Blue person an fantabulous accidental to bash what the Men successful Blue could not bash 2 years ago: triumph a World Cup astatine home. The men had a cleanable run until they were undone successful the last by Australia and an Ahmedabad slow-turner. The women excessively should beryllium wary of the defending champion from Down Under.
It is not conscionable the location vantage that Harmanpreet Kaur’s women have. They are successful form, too, arsenic they imagination of becoming the archetypal ever women’s World champions from India.
On their past tour, they had not simply beaten England, but made history, too. And conscionable this month, they ended a worrying losing streak against Australia; and they past threatened to propulsion disconnected a miracle, chasing 413 successful the last ODI.
Smriti Mandhana spearheaded that pursuit astatine New Delhi with her 2nd successive 100 successful the series, and she had scored a 50 successful the archetypal game. If her unthinkable tally continues astatine the World Cup too, the big should beryllium looking astatine immoderate large totals.
Dream duo
Smriti has struck a fabulous opening concern with Pratika Rawal, who has had a large commencement to her planetary career. She has made the Indian top-order solid, though excessively overmuch is made of her strike-rate, which, astatine 84.95, doesn’t airy overmuch successful examination with others successful the batting line-up. Harmanpreet, who reserves her champion for the expansive stages, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harleen Deol and Richa Ghosh excessively committedness runs.
The Indian onslaught is bolstered by the instrumentality from wounded of seamer Renuka Singh and she has the young Kranti Goud for support. There are plentifulness of options successful rotation successful Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Sneh Rana and N. Shree Charani.
Deepti’s runs successful the mediate bid excessively could count. India should besides beryllium hoping seaming all-rounder Amanjot Kaur is raring to go.
The squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (Capt.), Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Deepti Sharma, Amanjot Kaur, Radha Yadav, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh, Arundhati Reddy, Sneh Rana, N. Shree Charani and Uma Chetry.
India’s fixtures: Sept. 30: Sri Lanka (Guwahati); Oct. 5: Pakistan (Colombo); Oct. 9: South Africa (Visakhapatnam); Oct. 12: Australia (Visakhapatnam); Oct. 19: England (Indore); Oct. 23: New Zealand (Navi Mumbai); Oct. 26: Bangladesh (Navi Mumbai).
