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Like astir apical planetary teams converging successful UAE, India would person liked to alert to Dubai to instrumentality portion successful the T20 Women’s World Cup 2024, with a fewer planetary games arsenic preparation. Instead, India opted for a abbreviated campy successful Bengaluru, and sessions with a psychologist.
Like the men’s nationalist squad earlier this year’s T20 triumph successful the Caribbean, the women’s squad excessively person been falling abbreviated successful rubric races astatine ICC events. They haven’t won immoderate large rubric till date, but they judge that this is the champion clump of players that tin container them their archetypal crown.
The Bengaluru campy comprised 5 intra-squad T20 games successful a span of 10 days, and manager Amol Muzumdar explained it was specifically done for aspects that went beyond specified skills.
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“We had a campy wherever we did not interaction skills, successful that, we tried to present the psychologist. That is an country we would similar to pat into. I was beauteous blessed with the results, what we had, by the extremity of the camp. There were definite things that we tried to address. Mughda Bavare was with america and she’s been fantastic with the radical and she continues to beryllium there,” Muzumdar said.
Talking helps, reckoned skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, speaking up of their departure for the World Cup. She said that successful a squad crippled it is important for everyone to unfastened up truthful that the squad tin connection help.
“We had a fewer sessions wherever we talked to each other, however we are feeling and however we privation to spell astir it. With Mugdha’s help, determination were a batch of sessions aft which we felt good and past aft executing it connected the ground, we felt well. She’s truly moving hard connected us, and truthful acold it is truly helping us,” Kaur stated.
The campy besides focused connected diversion abilities and the streamlined absorption was to heighten these. Muzumdar stated that the squad absorption had designed the campy specifically to ore connected that aspect. “Some yoga sessions were added, immoderate intelligence sessions were added. Overall it was conscionable a beauteous camp. We identified a fewer areas and we tried to enactment upon it,” helium said.
Learning from past
The squad has addressed areas of interest and things wherever they mightiness beryllium going wrong. Kaur narrated however during the Asia Cup the squad played bully cricket throughout, but 1 unusual crippled successful the final, denied them the title. “There are a batch of areas wherever arsenic a team, we beryllium and sermon however we person to spell astir it. We are moving connected that and the erstwhile camp, we tried to find wherever we tin amended if adjacent clip these aforesaid benignant of situations travel successful our way and hopefully successful this World Cup, we volition effort to play bully cricket,” the Indian skipper added.
The squad is assured successful their mentation but erstwhile asked whether deficiency of competitory game-time volition hamper India’s performance, Muzumdar replied that arsenic a squad they person ticked boxes which they felt they needed to address.
“We did a batch of fittingness and fielding successful the archetypal camp, the full 15 days were delegated to that facet of the game. The adjacent campy was conscionable the skills campy wherever we focused not conscionable connected the nett league but we besides had astir 5 games successful 10 days’ time. So if you inquire astir crippled time, we person ticked that box. And we played immoderate precise competitory games. There were antithetic oppositions, determination were antithetic accomplishment sets that were chosen for those peculiar games. So arsenic acold arsenic crippled clip is concerned, I deliberation we are connected it,” helium pointed out.
The Indian squad has had to contend with the past infinitesimal alteration successful venue from Bangladesh to UAE aft the neighbouring state witnessed unrest. The International Cricket Council (ICC) decided to displacement the T20 Women’s World Cup, and that needed tweaking of plans since the Indian squad had planned their mentation keeping the Bangladesh venue successful mind.
“It came arsenic a astonishment for everyone,” Muzumdar replied. Further elaborating, helium said, “We had specifically gone to Bangladesh successful May and played 5 T20Is to get utilized to conditions. But things person changed and it has shifted to Dubai. I deliberation conditions would beryllium akin to what we person implicit present successful India astatine commencement of the IPL season, successful my experience. And I deliberation determination volition beryllium a small spot of bounce connected the surfaces successful Dubai especially. But remainder of the conditions, they stay the same, conscionable similar India.”
India statesman their T20 WC run connected October 4 erstwhile they instrumentality connected New Zealand successful Dubai. They are placed successful a radical with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia alongside the Kiwis.
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