Women’s T20 World Cup: India get pleasure from enjoying towards them, says Harmanpreet Kaur earlier than potential semis vs Australia

Women’s T20 World Cup 2023: India made their approach by means of to the semi-final of the mega occasion and are most probably to face Australia subsequent on February 23.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 20, 2023 23:16 IST

WT20 WC: IND get pleasure from enjoying towards them, says Harmanpreet earlier than potential semis vs AUS. Courtesy: Reuters

By India Today Web Desk: Harmanpreet Kaur stated that she is conscious of the problem India are going to face within the semi-final of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2023. The Women in Blue made their approach by means of to the semis of the mega occasion after beating Laura Delany’s Ireland by 5 runs (DLS Method) at St George’s Park.

Although it’s nonetheless doable for India to go to the highest of the desk, probabilities of the identical are distant as England have a internet run charge of +1.776. Hence, India’s opponent within the semis is most probably to be Australia, who received all 4 of their matches in Group A.

Harmanpreet stated that India will play freely towards Meg Lanning’s girls within the recreation, which is scheduled to be performed on Thursday, February 23 at Newlands in Cape Town.

“We always enjoy our match against them (Australia). It will be a do or die for both the teams. We just want to go and play free cricket,” Harmanpreet was quoted as saying within the post-match presentation ceremony.

Against Ireland, Smriti Mandhana grew to become the Player of the Match after she racked up her career-best rating of 87. The southpaw additionally notched back-to-back half-centuries after initially lacking the match towards Pakistan.

“It was a good game for us. Smriti got runs which was very important. Whenever she’s giving us that start, we are always get good totals. I just wanted to go there and spend some time in the middle,” she said.

India superior to their third successive semis within the historical past of the Women’s T20 World Cup. “It (reaching the semis) means a lot, we are working so hard for so many years and we always want to do well. Hope we’ll give our 100%,” Harmanpreet added.

Edited By:

sabyasachi chowdhury

Published On:

Feb 20, 2023