“All boxes were ticked”- Harmanpreet Kaur on winning against Sri Lanka in T20 World Cup 2024

The India captain, Harmanpreet Kaur, shared her emotions following her team’s significant 82-run triumph over Sri Lanka on Wednesday in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024.

With her incredible 52 runs off just 27 balls, Harmanpreet Kaur took home the Player of the Match award. The fact that Kaur was forced to leave the match against Pakistan due to injury is significant. Having cut herself while preventing herself from stumping, she was forced off the ground.

“Playing well in cricket always makes you feel good. Today, we checked all the boxes; we’ve been talking about our fielding, and taking all our catches is really important to us. We have talked about what to aim for if we bat first during the pregame. We are unable to execute these pitches because they are so complex.

Harmanpreet Kaur, following her victory over Sri Lanka in the World Cup 2024 match, said that “a lot of things went according to plan.

With the aid of Kaur’s knock, the team outscored their opponents 172 to 1, which featured the highest six-figure total of the competition thus far. The bowlers Asha Sobhana, Arundhati Reddy, and Renuka Singh followed the batsmen, taking 2, 3, and 4, respectively, and doing their best to keep India’s hopes of making it to the semi-finals alive.

It was one of those days when I was in my element—I was thinking positively and hitting anything that fell into my zone—and she also mentioned that she wished she could have stayed on the crease for a little while longer. It’s not very true to bat with these wickets. To swing your bat, you must continue to rotate your strike and wait until the ball enters the zone. We trusted in ourselves and rotated strikes because that’s what worked for us. We were there for the team today. We remained committed to the squad and didn’t waste our wickets, and I’m incredibly proud of the way we performed.”

By scoring 50 and 43 runs, respectively, the team’s openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma gave them a solid start. The middle ranks of the Women in Blue were able to maintain their tempo and achieve the best total of this year’s T20 World Cup thanks to their tremendous partnership of 98 runs.

However, in order to preserve their chances of making it to the semi-finals, team India held Sri Lanka to 6-3 in the third over before bowling the Lions out for 90. Throughout the pivotal game, Kaur made sure they maintained the momentum that drove them to victory over the Lions.

Australia, the reigning champions, will take against the India Women on Sunday in Sharjah. Currently ranked second in Group A. The captain of Women in Blue is certain that the team will play their opponents tough.

The final game of Sri Lanka’s campaign will take place on Saturday against New Zealand, having lost their first three games in the competition. The team is still getting over their first loss to Pakistan, according to captain Chamari Athapaththu. We had trouble bowling as well; we missed a few catches. Nobody performed as well as batters, including me. Early sales of top-order made it difficult to pursue. Things need to be worked on by returning to the white board. As a batting unit, we had to chase that mark in the first game, which is a low-scoring match that is incredibly essential for this kind of tour.

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In cricket, stuff happens. We have one more game, where we must play our best cricket against New Zealand. The players were dejected after the first game, and I tried to raise them up. Happy with my bowling unit’s performance in the last two games—not today,” Athapaththu exclaimed.