Gautam Gambhir has known as for equality in males’s and girls’s cricket after Harmanpreet Kaur did not function in Google’s search outcomes for the Indian cricket group captain. The event comes forward of India’s Ladies’s T20 World Cup semi-final conflict in opposition to Australia on Thursday, February 23.

The 2-time World Cup winner urged the followers to development #IndiancricketteamcaptainHarmanpreetKaur as solely Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya featured within the aforementioned search outcomes.

Sharing a video on Twitter, Gambhir wrote:

“It’s time to alter! Let’s do it.”

“India we’d like your consideration. Indian cricket group captain. The place is captain Harmanpreet Kaur? The outcomes (in Google) received’t change till you do. Flood social media with the hashtag #IndiancricketteamcaptainHarmanpreetKaur. Unfold the phrase. Be part of the motion. Cricket is everybody’s sport.”

“We performed too many dot balls” – Harmanpreet Kaur

Harmanpreet Kaur needs India to play fewer dot balls within the semi-final after India narrowly made it to the semi-final. The 33-year-old identified that India misplaced in opposition to England by 11 runs within the group stage, the place the Ladies in Blue performed 51 dot balls. India additionally performed 41 dot balls in opposition to Eire, which they survived by 5 runs through the DLS methodology.

Talking to Star Sports activities, she stated:

“Towards England, we performed too many dot balls. Issues like that we’ve already been discussing in group conferences. However generally, when the opposite group is bowling too nicely, on the finish of the day, these wickets are one thing while you rating 150, that is a par rating for you.”

Kaur added:

“World Cup video games are at all times one thing the place each the groups are at all times below 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 enjoying in line with the state of affairs. Dot balls are one thing which [are] already worrying us.”

India’s and Australia’s street to Ladies’s T20 World Cup semi-final 2023

India

Beat Pakistan by seven wickets

Beat West Indies by six wickets

Misplaced to England by 11 runs

Beat Eire by 5 runs (DLS methodology)

Australia

Beat New Zealand by 97 runs

Beat Bangladesh by eight wickets

Beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets

Beat South Africa by six wickets

For the uninitiated, Australia beat India by 85 runs within the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2020 ultimate.