With 50 days to choose the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, India ladies’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur, opener Smriti Mandhana and batter Jemimah Rodrigues have actually opened on their huge aspirations for the marquee competition.
Significantly, the upcoming 50-over World Cup marks the return of a senior ICC Women’s competition to the sub-continent for the very first time because 2016, when India hosted the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. India has actually formerly hosted the Women’s World Cup in 1978, 1997 and 2013.
Harmanpreet, who will be leading in her very first Women’s ODI World Cup, likes breaking India’s deadlock by winning their very first senior ICC flatware.
“(The plan is the) same as my first ODI World Cup. I want to go there and enjoy my cricket, but playing in front of the home crowd is always special. This time, I hope we will give our 100 percent and try to break that final barrier that we have all been waiting for,” Kaur stated at the ’50 Days To Go’ occasion in Mumbai.
The 36-year-old Kaur thinks India are heading into the competition high up on self-confidence following their current successes, specifically the series win in England.
“(The confidence is) very high. The kind of cricket we’ve played over the last couple of years, gives us a lot of confidence,” she stated.
India opener Smriti Mandhana echoed Kaur’s belief and opened up on the altering frame of mind within Indian cricket over the previous couple of years.
“The mindset has changed over the last two or three years. There’s a calmness with which I want to go about on the field. Our whole team is heading in that direction. We know where we want to work hard. And when we enter the field, we know we’ve just got to implement,” Mandhana was priced quote as stating by ICC.
Mandhana even more discussed that the side was concentrating on remaining in today and not seeking to accomplish particular landmarks.
“Whenever we’ve done well (on the field), everything else has taken care of itself. We are preparing really really well. We’ve had a preparation camp. We’ve had an England tour. We’ve one tour ahead of the World Cup. To be honest, that’s the only thing we are thinking about,” she stated.
Middle-order batting lynchpin Jemimah Rodrigues specified that the start of the Women’s Premier League has actually likewise added to reinforcing the self-confidence of newbies in the group.
Rodrigues offered the video game the example of 22-year-old pacer Kranti Gaud, who completed as the leading wicket-taker in India’s 2-1 ODI series win in England with 9 scalps that consisted of a six-wicket haul.
“What the WPL has done has given youngsters a platform to perform and get into the Indian team. There’s not as much pressure as on international debut,” Jemimah stated.
“In this team, we see that. We look at Kranti (Gaud), she’s fearless. That attitude is so nice to see that it pushes each one of us,” she included.
On the other hand, previous India captain Mithali Raj, who was likewise a part of the occasion and had actually led the side in the previous edition, thought that the group’s current string of outcomes puts them in a strong position for the World Cup.
“The way the team has been doing over the last one year, not just in ODIs, but in T20Is. A wonderful series in England, beating England in England,” Mithali stated.
“I can see with their confidence, and being there in the home world cup. I think nothing better,” she included.
India will start their ODI World Cup 2025 project versus Sri Lanka at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on September 30.
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