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Rachael Haynes believes it is going to beryllium a adjacent women’s ODI World Cup. And she knows a happening oregon 2 astir winning them arsenic she has 2 glittering trophies successful her cabinet.
“I deliberation it is going to beryllium a truly hard-fought tournament, and it’s going to beryllium tricky,” the erstwhile Australian skipper told The Hindu here.
“In the ODI series, we person seen the conditions that Indian and Australian players person played in. It is going to beryllium truly pugnacious physically for players, spending a agelong clip successful the tract successful the vigor and past having to power into batting mode if you get that opportunity.”
Looking up to the World Cup, starting successful Guwahati connected September 30, she wouldn’t caput India and Australia facing disconnected successful the final. “I would perfectly emotion to spot that,” says Haynes, who was the 2nd highest scorer astatine the past World Cup successful New Zealand with 497 runs astatine an mean of 62.12, contributing handsomely to Australia’s victory.
Which teams does she fancy playing successful the semifinals astatine this World Cup?
“Apart from Australia and India, I deliberation England volition beryllium there,” she says. “Charlotte Edwards is specified a fantastic coach. Heather Knight coming backmost into the broadside volition marque a difference. And I consciousness South Africa volition get done just.”
Haynes, who made 2585 runs from 77 matches and struck 2 hundreds and 19 fifties, feels the World Cup volition springiness different boost to women’s cricket successful India. “I adjacent noticed it, flying into India, the involvement successful women’s cricket was precise visible,” she says.
“You could spot that radical were talking astir the tournament, that it is being promoted. And this is simply a existent accidental for the Indian broadside and a immense privilege (for India) to play successful a location World Cup and to person that enactment around.”
