MUMBAI: Taking part in the World Cup at house brings a few totally different degree of strain. Given the eagerness for the sports activities within the nation, no cricket workforce faces a much bigger problem than India. This season, all eyes might be on the India girls’s cricket workforce when it begins its marketing campaign within the ICC Ladies’s ODI World Cup.
At an ICC occasion to mark the 50-day countdown, former India star all-rounder Yuvraj Singh mentioned the secret is to discover a strategy to deal with the expectations. He gave them the instance of how his workforce achieved success on house soil in 2011. With captain Harmanpreet Kaur, in attendance together with star batters Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues, the participant of the 2011 match, mentioned “minimize the noise” was the mantra set by the workforce’s senior batter Sachin Tendulkar and coach Gary Kirsten.
“I provides you with an instance of what we felt at the moment. Till then, no nation had received the World Cup at house and it had been 28 years since we received a World Cup (1983). I bear in mind we tied the sport in opposition to England and we misplaced to South Africa (within the league stage), from a successful place. We bought quite a lot of backlash. I bear in mind Tendulkar and coach Kirsten coming and having a chat with us – ‘From right here on what are the issues we have to do to win the match – nobody goes to look at TV; nobody goes to learn the newspaper (social media wasn’t huge at the moment, now it’s much more powerful as you’ve got it on the telephone, you’ll be able to change it off whereas the World Cup is on); once you stroll in the direction of the bottom put your headphones on (whereas signing autographs and clicking pictures with the followers), to give attention to the sector. Whereas going again to your room, put your headphones again on. Reduce the noise and attempt to do what you might want to do to win the match,” mentioned Yuvraj.
“It’s about ‘being within the second and let’s strive to do that as a workforce’. We did that and it labored. I’m not saying it (the identical factor) goes to be just right for you (girls’s workforce) as effectively. I’m simply saying that the workforce has to give attention to one thing which makes everybody consider that ‘if we do that it would work for us’,” mentioned Yuvraj at an ICC occasion held within the metropolis.
The a number of World Cup-winner suggested the gamers to maintain religion of their expertise. “Each time you stroll right into a sport you need to consider you need to win the sport to your nation. If Smriti will get out, then Harman has to say I’m going to shine, if Harman will get out then she ought to consider that Jemimah is there. You’ve got to consider as a workforce, each time I stroll out to bowl or bat I’m the particular person who’s going to make the distinction. If all 11 consider that, then the outcomes will comply with,” mentioned Yuvraj.
Batting nice and former India girls’s workforce captain, Mithali Raj, mentioned India reaching the ultimate of the 2017 World Cup was the turning level for ladies’s cricket.
“The 2017 World Cup really reworked girls’s cricket not simply in India however globally I might say, as a result of social media was comparatively new (and) the ICC did their half in selling and campaigning on a bigger scale,” mentioned Mithali. “(However) It didn’t occur in a single day, it’s a journey… coming underneath the BCCI fold, the affect of the 2017 World Cup, the WPL. Information come and go however I’ve seen the earlier period and the present one. I’ve lived it,” she added.
For the ICC CEO Sanjog Gupta, the 2025 World Cup will be the springboard for the following leap in girls’s cricket. “In each sense, the expansion of girls’s cricket over the past eight years has introduced as much as this second the place it’s time for ladies’s cricket to take the following leap. This World Cup will be the springboard for that subsequent leap.”
