Indian ladies’s cricket group skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar can miss the Ladies’s T20 World Cup semifinal encounter in opposition to Australia as a consequence of sickness, in accordance with sources. India certified for the knockout phases of the competitors with six factors from 4 matches. Whereas the Harmanpreet-led facet was in a position to beat Pakistan, West Indies and Eire, their solely defeat got here in opposition to Eire. If Harmanpreet misses the match, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana is anticipated to steer the facet. There have been additionally some harm considerations over Radha Yadav who missed the match in opposition to Eire.

Forward of the semi-final conflict, Harmanpreet had identified some factors of concern for Workforce India.

“We began very well however within the center overs, we didn’t bowl in accordance with plan and gave away too many runs. That’s the place we misplaced the momentum. We had been doing properly with the bat however didn’t get the run price that we had been on the lookout for and that’s the reason we misplaced wickets,” mentioned Harmanpreet within the post-match presentation after the loss in opposition to England.

Harmanpreet additionally spoke in size in regards to the variety of dot balls confronted by the Indian batters. India displayed some progress in opposition to Eire with 41 dots of their innings of 155 for six, powered by Smriti Mandhana’s T20I career-best rating of 87, after going through 51 dot balls of their loss to England.

“World Cup video games are at all times one thing the place each the groups are at all times underneath stress. I believe these matches if 150 is on the board, you at all times [have] the higher hand. We aren’t placing an excessive amount of stress on ourselves. We’re simply going [out] there and understanding what circumstances are there and simply taking part in in accordance with the state of affairs. Dot balls are one thing which [are] already worrying us. Within the subsequent recreation, we might like to see some enchancment in that space additionally,” Harmanpreet added.

(With PTI inputs)