Last version’s runners-up, India will open their marketing campaign in opposition to arch-rivals Pakistan on February 12.
“The Under-19 team’s victory provides added inspiration. Winning any world title is huge and one will always remember this one since it was the inaugural edition of the championship. I congratulate the team for the historic victory and hope we can emulate them in the senior event,” Harmanpreet wrote in a column for ICC.
Remembering their ultimate day out on the Women’s T20 World Cup, which was once watched by means of 86,174 spectators at MCG, Harmanpreet stated, “That match, played on International Women’s Day three years ago, was a huge moment for women’s sport worldwide, as the iconic venue filled up for the Australia versus India match with fervour.”
“Our ultimate fit of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup – the 2020 ultimate on the MCG – was once watched by means of 86,174 spectators! That’s inspiration sufficient as we get ready to start out our marketing campaign this time.”
“I nonetheless get goosebumps remembering that fit as I call to mind my previous years at the circuit and notice the type of development girls’s cricket has made. I’ve performed in all of the T20 World Cups to this point – in reality I debuted within the structure on the inaugural version in 2009 – and feature observed the tempo of the sport surge like anything else,” Harmanpreet wrote additional.
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Harmanpreet reckons this year’s tournament in South Africa will be ultra-competitive. Although Australia go into the tournament as favourites, there is very little separating other teams, promising close matches and high-class performances.
India have made the final of ICC senior women’s global events three times – the 50-over World Cups of 2005 and 2017 being the other occasions – and are hungry for that elusive title as they go to South Africa with high hopes and the confidence of having an outfit that can beat any team on its day.
“We have senior avid gamers in addition to younger weapons like Shafali Verma and Richa Ghosh, who’re recent from the Indian crew’s victory on the Under-19 World Cup, play a beautiful logo of cricket and now even have sufficient enjoy of top-class cricket We have intensity in batting and sufficient selection in bowling with Renuka Singh stepping up smartly within the tempo division to do what is needed in opposition to height groups,” added Harmanpreet.
“We were getting ready smartly too. We received the Asia Cup and silver within the Commonwealth Games in fresh months. A house collection in opposition to Australia in December additional gave us the chance to check ourselves and check out our combos in opposition to a height facet.”
“Though we misplaced the collection 4-1, there have been sufficient thrills within the collection for the hundreds who thronged the Mumbai stadiums. The attendance in the ones fits additionally mirrored the rising consideration the ladies’s sport has been in a position to draw lately,” said the Indian skipper
The support for women’s cricket by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been amazing over the years and the upcoming Women’s IPL is surely going to take the game to the next level in India.