'We could have done better…', why did Smriti Mandhana give such a statement even after winning, she said – 'No matter how much strategy we make…'

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Smriti Mandhana Statement: The Indian women's cricket team performed brilliantly and won the second T20 match played with Zimbabwe on Sunday night. With this victory, Smriti Mandhana and Company have achieved an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match series. After winning this match, the Indian captain looked very happy and praised her bowlers a lot. Also praised Shefali Verma's batting. But, meanwhile, he also talked about a shortcoming of his team and said that it could have been improved.

Smriti Mandhana praised the bowlers fiercely

In the second T-20 match played between India and Zimbabwe, the visiting team came on the field to bat first. Where, Zimbabwe batted the entire 20 overs, but could score only 102 runs at the loss of 8 wickets against the Indian bowlers. As a result, the Indian team set a target of 103 runs. Team India, which set out to chase this target, achieved it in just 8.5 overs at the loss of 1 wicket and registered a big win by 9 wickets.

After this victory, Indian captain Smriti Mandhana said in the post match presentation, “Today was a good day. I thought our bowlers bowled very accurately today, which was much better than the first match. They used yorkers, slower balls and bouncers very well. Apart from this, the spinners Deepti, Shree and Nikki came and bowled two overs each very well. Overall, I think our entire bowling unit showed great coordination today.

Mandhana said about fielding, Yes, we could have done better in terms of taking catches in fielding. “This is something we need to pay attention to.”

India entered the field with many strategies

Was the decision to bowl 'full-length' balls after the first match a conscious strategy? Said on this, “Yes, we had discussed it. In the last match we had seen how some of Zimbabwe's batsmen played and today we had better plans because we knew the way they had batted in the first match. We had a lot of good strategies, but no matter how many strategies you make, in the end it is the bowlers who have to execute them on the field and today I thought they bowled absolutely perfectly.”

Shefali Verma also appreciated

Shafali Verma, who came to chase the target of 103 runs given by Zimbabwe, batted in a explosive manner. He played an inning of 55 runs in 25 balls, in which he hit 6 fours and 4 sixes. In such a situation, Captain Smriti Mandhana praised Shefali a lot.

The Indian captain said, “Shefali was playing in her own style in the powerplay, the way she was hitting strong shots, I was very happy to give her singles and whenever I got a chance, I also played good shots. To be honest, we like to play this kind of cricket and will continue to play like this in future too.”

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