New Delhi: Captain of the Indian ODI Women’s team Mithali Raj and Ramesh Powar coach on Saturday said that the party is currently focused on the World Cup next year and Australia’s tour will function as an ideal preparation for the Mega event.
The Indian team will leave for Australia on Wednesday to play three odi, test day and night and three T20IS.
“We need to understand that we play three odi first and we focus now on the Preparation of the World Cup,” Powar said during the pre-departure press conference, even when the question revolved around the pink ball test against Australia.
“Regarding the one-time test match we must bring our one-day trust into a test match.
We don’t have to prepare separately when we support our players in all formats.
We try to instill how we will approach each format.” Australia’s tour will begin with the ODIS series, starting with the first match at North Sydney Oval on September 19, followed by the second and third matches in the Oval Junction on September 22 and 24.
World Cup 50-Over Women are scheduled to be held in New Zealand in March-April next year.
Mithali Skipper said, “We know the fields that we need to improve and we work and discuss those problems during the preparation camp in Bangalore.” Whatever the results in Australia, we still have several months for the World Cup.
Australia’s tour is good for us because we play against the best, we will also get an idea of a combination of teams before the World Cup.
So Australia Tour is a good game plan before the word cup.
“In the second term as a coach of the women’s national team, Powar said the management team hoped to strengthen the quick bowling department to reduce the burden on the veteran Jhulan Goswami.” We seek consistency in a quick bowling so that the jam can express itself, he will be forced to be defensive And we don’t want the situation, “said Powar.” We have to get support for the Jhulan Goswami, we need to do it as a partner so he can bowl in partnership.
We focus on Meghna Singh and we look forward to Pooja Vastrakar too.
“So the selection and management of the team decided the last 20-25 players, we stayed on the same page when we went to the series,” he added.
Jeas Bowler Meghna and Renuka Singh Thakur were given Indian call-ups, while Rajeshwari’s left arm spinner Gayakwad returned to the team for the upcoming contest against Australia.
Mithali admitted that a pink ball test would be a challenge for the players.
“It will be great because most of the questions are spinning about pink balls than one day cricket.” The challenge will play under the lights.
And also play with a pink ball because we are all familiar with red cherries.
We have feedback from men.
“Odi and testing the captain, an experienced campaigner with more than two decades, said Australia’s tour continued to be one of the most difficult in international cricket.” We do not enter into matching the specified mindset because it depends on the situation.
We want our team to go very confident, without thinking about the gray area.
“We know that we play the best side of the world and we need to bring our ‘A’ game.
But we are also very lucky to have a tent of about 30 girls, with match simulations, matching the lights, we have enough to do whatever we can with our preparation, “said Mithali.
Perth will host the One-Off Pink-Ball test is scheduled from September 30, followed by T20i in the North Sydney Oval on October 7, 9 and 11.
“Seeing the current situation we are happy to go to Australia and continue to play cricket.
After England we took a month’s rest and we returned to do well, we had played enough at the Bangalore camp and was ready for any format, “said Powar.
According to the latest reports, the schedule of the Indian team in Australia can be changed due to border restrictions and locking Covid-19 in Sydney and Melbourne.
Asked about it, Powar said, “We look forward to a challenging tour and we were all eager to go there and make our best effort to make it a good tour.”
We focus on ODI WC, Australia’s tour is good preparation: Mithali
