Indian women’s team captain Smriti Mandhana
Smriti Mandhana Captaincy: Indian women’s team defeated Ireland by 304 runs in the third ODI. By winning the match, India made a clean sweep of the series 3-0. Indian team captain Smriti Mandhana won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be right. Indian batsmen performed brilliantly and scored a mountain-like score of 435 runs. Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal scored strong centuries for India. Mandhana scored a record century in just 70 balls. But even after the victory, he has pointed out where India needs to improve.
Fielding needs to be improved: Mandhana
Captain Smriti Mandhana said that the performance will have to improve significantly before the ODI World Cup to be held in India in August-September. There are a lot of things. We want to enjoy this victory but also keep an eye on the preparations for the World Cup. We have to work on fielding and running between the wickets. This is very important in 50 overs cricket. By working on these two we can do something special.
Indian team captain Smriti Mandhana said after the match that the plan was to play aggressively. I was thinking that in many matches we don’t get a chance to play openly like this, so I tried some shots. Sometimes the result is favorable and sometimes not. Today the result was in favour. I’m glad everyone got practice. I am very happy for Jemimah Rodriguez, Harleen Deol, Pratika Rawal and Richa Ghosh.
Pratika Rawal did a great performance
Pratika Raval performed amazingly for India in the ODI series against Ireland and she emerged as the biggest match winner for the team. He scored a total of 310 runs in 3 matches including one century and two half-centuries. He was given the Player of the Series award for his excellent performance. Apart from this, in the third match he played an innings of 154 runs, which was his first century in his ODI career. After this he said that what was going on in my mind was when will I get a chance to kiss the helmet. I was imagining it and wanted to do the same.
(Input: PTI)
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