India’s Women’s T20 World Cup campaign witnessed a poor start as they faced a58-run loss to New Zealand in Dubai. Though the fielding standards were not up to the mark, Jemimah Rodrigues did wonder and covered a lot of ground and saved important runs for the team.
Fielding coach Munish Bali brought back the high spirits in the dressing room and praised the comeback in the fielding department apart from a couple of setbacks in powerplay. Munish gave the medal to skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, which was then honoured to Jemimah.
“Tough luck girls, I know it was not an ideal start, it’s not the start that we wanted. We will bounce back. The way we fielded, if we erase the sixth over, where we did two errors, after that, we came back into the match. Well done!” he said.
“Smriti Mandhana and Shreyanka Patil, excellent catch. Pooja Vastrakar, excellent efforts, fielding around and diving. Three brilliant saves in the boundary. Like how we bounced back in fielding, let’s bounce back in the next game,” he added.
