"We want to focus on our strengths": Indian women's team head coach

By Sandy Verma On Oct 24, 2024

Ahmedabad�अहमदाबाद : Ahead of the first ODI of the three-match series against New Zealand, India women's team head coach Amol Majumdar on Wednesday said that they are trying to focus on the strengths of the team. All the matches of the three-match ODI series will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, with the first match taking place on October 24. After this there will be two matches on 27th October and 29th October. All matches will start at 1:30 PM IST.

Speaking at the pre-match press conference, Amol Majumdar said that they are working on areas where they can improve. He said the upcoming series against New Zealand will be a good one. “We are a formidable team and we want to focus on our strengths and work on areas of improvement. I'm sure it will be a very good team,” Majumdar said. The series will happen.”The head coach said that it is disappointing for the Indian women's team to fail to qualify for the Women's T20 World Cup to be held in the UAE.

He said, “It would not be wrong to say that we are disappointed with the World Cup, because the team and players are injured. But we need to collect ourselves and look at the positive things we have done as a group in the last 10 months. ”

India and the women's team failed to qualify for the knockout stages of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. India finished third in Group A with two wins and two losses. Due to a 58-run defeat by New Zealand in the opening match and a narrow defeat by Australia, the women's team could not reach the knockouts despite wins over Sri Lanka and arch-rivals Pakistan. India's Women's T20 World Cup Team: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Yastika Bhatia, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemlata, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajna Sajeevan. Traveling reserves: Uma Chhetri (wk), Tanuja Kanwar, Saima Thakor. Non-travel reserved: Raghvi Bist, Priya Mishra. (ANI)