Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra feels that Harmanpreet Kaur is beneath strain whereas main India on the Ladies’s World Cup. Harmanpreet has scored solely 40 runs in India’s first two matches within the match up till now.
Chopra highlighted that whereas Harmanpreet has featured in a number of World Cups, she has carried out that as a participant, and never captain. He additionally underscored how Harmanpreet, now 36, won’t be round for the following World Cup.
“There will probably be strain. Firstly, you’re the captain. That is your fifth World Cup, the primary as a captain, and it is perhaps in her thoughts that this might most likely be the final as properly. It is most unlikely that she will probably be within the subsequent ODI World Cup. So, the strain is there,” acknowledged Chopra throughout an interplay with Star Sports activities.
Chopra additionally talked about how Harmanpreet’s lack of huge scores after getting begins to this point might go onto change into a problem for the crew.
“If the others are additionally getting begins and never changing them into huge scores, publicly, you say every little thing is okay, however in your coronary heart, that it’s essential to contribute. If a crew’s chief does not rating runs, does not carry out from the entrance, the crew turns into barely weak. So, the captain has to attain. She will certainly be feeling slight strain,” he added.
India Ladies have received each their contests on the mega occasion to this point. They began off with a 59-run win in opposition to co-hosts Sri Lanka (DLS technique) in Guwahati after which went clinched an emphatic 88-run win in opposition to arch-rivals Pakistan in Colombo.
India’s subsequent two video games will probably be performed on the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam, the place they’re slated to host South Africa on October 9 and Australia on October 12.
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