On Monday, Would possibly 23, Smriti Mandhana’s Trailblazers confronted a heavy 49-run defeat by the hands of Harmanpreet Kaur’s Supernovas on the MCA Stadium.
Smriti Mandhana of Trailblazers. Courtesy: Reuters
HIGHLIGHTSOn Monday, Trailblazers misplaced to Supernovas via 49 runsMandhana scored a well-made 23-ball 34The Trailblazers will subsequent face Pace on Thursday
Trailblazers’ skipper Smriti Mandhana mentioned that shedding wickets in clusters didn’t lend a hand her group in opposition to the Supernovas within the opening fit of the Girls’s T20 Problem on Monday, Would possibly 23 on the Maharashtra Cricket Affiliation (MCA) Stadium in Pune.
After being requested to 164, the Trailblazers made an excellent get started courtesy of a 39-run partnership between Mandhana and Hayley Matthews. However from there on, the Trailblazers misplaced their option to a big extent and controlled to attain handiest 113/9, thereby shedding the fit via 49 runs.
Mandhana, who scored a 23-ball 34 on the most sensible order, reckoned that her group had to rotate the strike extra ceaselessly to position the bowlers underneath force. Then again, she additionally praised the bowlers for now not permitting the Supernovas batters to run away with the fit.
COME BACK STRONGER
“Indubitably now not the outcome we would have liked, we did effectively to limit them to 160. At the batting, we have been heading in the right direction to chase it however misplaced too many wickets, that’s one thing we wish to paintings on. We have been at par with them until the ninth over, however misplaced monitor. We wish to take extra singles and doubles, this is one thing this is underrated,” Mandhana was once quoted as announcing.
“I informed the bowlers the wicket is just right and the outfield is fast, so the message was once they shouldn’t panic although they opt for runs. We wish to take into accounts the batting line-up, with the remaining we can come again more potent within the subsequent sport,” she added.
The Trailblazers will subsequent face Deepti Sharma’s Pace of their must-win come across on Thursday, Would possibly 26 in Pune. They’re lately positioned on the backside of the issues desk with a web run price of -2.450.
