India’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur has talked about that she and the Indian girls’s cricket group have moved on from all of the controversies that made headlines when India final performed in opposition to Bangladesh in a white-ball sequence in July this yr.
India are slated to face Bangladesh within the first semifinal of the ladies’s cricket competitors on the ongoing Asian Video games on Sunday, September 24 and Harmanpreet will not be part of the taking part in XI as she is at present serving a two-match suspension after an act of dissent within the third ODI vs Bangladesh went in opposition to her and price her closely.
Smriti Mandhana is at present main the aspect and can marshall her troops on the sphere within the semifinal conflict in opposition to Bangladesh.
“What occurred has occurred, and I feel we must always transfer ahead,” Harmanpreet informed reporters on Friday.
Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana Jyoti who led the group over the last sequence in opposition to India appears in no temper to take additional stress main into the semifinal fixture and has affirmed that they are going to be “treating it as simply one other recreation”.
“No, we are going to deal with it as simply one other match. It will have been preferable to play at the moment, however we’ve got latest expertise taking part in in opposition to them [India], having received the earlier time we confronted them,” Jyoti informed within the pre-match presser.
India regarded dominant of their quarterfinal fixture in opposition to Malaysia. Smriti, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh all regarded in nice contact with the willow earlier than rain performed spoilsport and the sport led to a no end result.
Bangladesh’s quarterfinal fixture in opposition to Hong Kong acquired deserted with no ball bowled and identical to India in addition they certified for the semis primarily based on their increased seeding.
If rain hampers the semifinal conflict, then Bangladesh can be eradicated as India are a higher-ranked aspect however Nigar just isn’t mulling a lot over the identical and plans to regulate the controllables on the day.
“Look, nobody has management over the climate. We are going to make the mandatory preparations to succeed on the day,” Joty added.
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