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Trailblazers captain Smriti Mandhana on Thursday mentioned her group’s bowlers executed their plans completely in the nine-wicket rout of Velocity in the Women’s T20 Challenge on Thursday.
Mandhana mentioned she instructed her bowlers to assault the stumps and it paid off.
“I just told all the bowlers to keep it back of a length and stick to the stump line. We have a good spin attack. I was following IPL, so I thought we had a good bowling attack (with all the spinners),” she mentioned.
She mentioned she was blissful when her Velocity counterpart Mithali Raj opted to bat after successful the toss. Mithali’s resolution backfired as her facet put up a disappointing present to be all out for simply 47 in 15.1 overs and Trailblazers chased down the goal in 7.5 overs.
“I was happy with Mithali’s decision (to bat) as we wanted to have a look at the wicket,” Mandhana mentioned at the post-match presentation.
“It was a good game. We were really excited. We were raring to play cricket after a break of seven months.”
Mandhana mentioned the quick four-match event could be useful for Indian cricket.
Velocity captain Mithali Raj mentioned her facet would would wish to overlook this recreation.
“But it’s nice as a result of when you’ve a contemporary wicket the batters wish to have a bat. That’s the motive we selected to bat.
“Personally I would have liked Dani and Shafali to have a big partnership because they are the key for our batting line up and we are dependent on them to give us a start. Unfortunately in both the games we didn’t get that.”
Ruing her facet’s batting collapse, Mithali mentioned, “Shafali played a cameo but we wanted Dani to spend some time in the middle and then there was a collapse.”
Player of the match Sophie Ecclestone, who took 4 wickets for simply 9 runs from her 3.1 overs, mentioned she saved it straight and diverse the tempo on a turning observe.
“We have an excellent group with an excellent bunch of women, to return up right here once more and play for them is nice. When the wicket wasn’t turning, so I attempted to maintain it straight and differ the tempo. It’s fairly good to get few wickets.
“So many youngsters around, they are teaching me the Hindi language and I’m trying to understand their culture,” mentioned the English cricketer.
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