After India lost to South Africa by eight wickets in the first ODI of the five-match series, vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur said that lack of match practice led to the Indian women’s team losing their “rhythm” in the past one year where they played no cricket.
“We didn’t get any international cricket for a year. Apart from three IPL games we didn’t get much time to work as a unit. As a team you need to spend time and get ready for any series,” said Harmanpreet at the post-match press conference.
“Nowadays everybody is looking for a big total, every game we want to score more than 250 but for that you need some time and matches,” she said.
“In the past few years we had built a rhythm but we will need time to create that rhythm and next game we will try to do that as a unit,” said Harmanpreet, who was playing her 100th ODI.
“When you are playing after a long time there are chances were you can collapse but they bowled well and we threw our wickets. As a bowling unit, there were no partnership, you need partnership whether it is bowling or batting,” she cocncluded.
India will now face South Africa in the second affair on Tuesday.