After the embarrassing defeat against New Zealand, captain Harmanpreet Kaur said that she did not expect such a start.
The T20 World Cup 2024 being played in UAE has seen a very bad start for the Indian women’s cricket team. The Indian team, which came on the field to play its first match in Group-A on October 4, had to face a huge defeat of 58 runs in the match against New Zealand, due to which it has now become very difficult for the team to even reach the semi-finals. In this match held at the Dubai ground, while the Kiwi women’s team batted first and scored 160 runs in 20 overs, while chasing the target, Team India was limited to a score of only 102 runs. After this shameful defeat, captain Harmanpreet Kaur also looked very disappointed in which she said that she did not expect the tournament to start like this.
We have chased the target of 160 to 170 many times before
Harmanpreet Kaur said in a statement to the broadcaster after the defeat in the match against New Zealand in the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 that we did not perform at our best today. We will have to see which areas we need to improve before the upcoming matches. Now all the remaining matches have become very important for us. We created chances during this match, it was not that we did not create them. There is no doubt that he played much better than us in this match. This is a big tournament where you cannot make such mistakes. We have chased targets of 160 to 170 runs many times before, but on this pitch we scored 10 to 15 runs more. At one time when he started I thought he would score close to 180 runs. We could not start the way we expected in this tournament.
India’s next match with Pakistan
In the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian women’s team now has to play its next group match against the Pakistan women’s team on October 6 at the ground in Dubai, which will be played during the day. The biggest loss that Team India suffered from the huge defeat of 58 runs by New Zealand was in their net run rate, which directly dropped to -2.90. At the same time, Pakistani women’s team has started its tournament with a win by defeating the Sri Lankan team in its very first match, due to which it is currently at second place in the points table.
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