As I had already mentioned in my blog written on 27th August (READ HERE) that group A is looking tough and India W has to worked hard on strategy to win matches. India W wasn't prepared enough to face the challenge it seems. I wrote about the weakness of New Zealand and how can we beat them in order to be in the race of qualification. We gave them some easy runs in the batting and we were just not up to the mark while playing. New Zealand W always kept the upper hand in the game. New Zealand W made a strong statement by winning comfortably against India W. They now have a clear chance to enter the semis.
India, on the other hand do has a outside chance but quite tough for them now. There were a lot of things in which India was lacking. There needs to be some improvement done which will be helpful in the future. They need to set game specific strategies, and wish for some miracle. Cause beating Australia W do require a miracle to happen.
WHAT'S THE WAY FORWARD IN THE WORLD CUP FOR TEAM INDIA NOW?
Win all the remaining 3 matches and hope NZ W lose against either Sri Lanka or Australia. But, can we win against Australia? Yeah, I know it's almost impossible but that's need to be done if you are here to win the cup. We need to beat Aussies to make place in the top 4. Ok, but what if we lose against Aussies too? Can we still go in the top 4? Umm. Yes we can depending on performance of NZ, hoping NZ losing against both SL and AUS. But still we will need to match their run-rate which is technically not possible.
These are the only 2 outside chance for India to end up in the top 4. Or else, group stage exit is loading for us. Apart from this, India should also improve their fielding standards. Fielding was below par yesterday, should try to save some singles and doubles. India also need to keep the moral high and should believe that they can still get there.
So going forward in the semis is not impossible but tough challenge. I believe that women in blue can pull this of and lets hope for the best.
WHAT CHANGES WE CAN DO FOR THE NEXT MATCH?
I want to see changes in the Batting line-up, I had already mentioned in my previous blog that Jemimah should play 1 down and Harman at 4, keep Richa for finishing. Secondly, add a extra batter in place of maybe Arundhati Reddy. Maybe Hemlatha or Sanjana can play at no.6. Go with 5 bowlers, anyways we are leaking runs with the ball. You can change Asha or Shreyanka for Radha in the next match, or just make Deepti warm the bench and let Radha, Shreyanka and Asha play. That will be the perfect combination I guess. Rest all is I think good just need to improve the mindset and the technique. I predicted this situation already in my blog so it was not like a not expected thing, that's what we expected to happen.
Let us now back our team and hope for glory, I wish India W to atleast have a good fight against Australia. Our next match is scheduled tomorrow against arch rivals Pakistan and we will surely gonna win that. I will try to write after that match too, until then stay tuned and follow me for more updates of Cricketing world.
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