Women’s World T20 | Mithali Raj questions fielders despite comfortable win over Pakistan
After India dropped three catches yesterday, Mithali Raj has come out and said that the Indian fielders need to do well in grabbing chances when on the field and understand the importance of catches. Raj also wants to see a women’s T20 league like IPL in India in the next couple of years.
India managed to win the second game of the ongoing ICC Women’s World T20 as they defeated arch-rivals Pakistan by seven wickets at Providence Stadium in Guyana. India chased down the target of 134 in 19 overs by losing only three wickets and experienced Raj scored 56 off 47 balls and was awarded the Player of the Match for her sensible batting during the run-chase. She got to her fourth fifty in T20 World Cup which is the most by an Indian player.
Although the Indian bowlers did well to restrict Pakistan for only 133 in 20 overs, the players had a poor outing on the field. India dropped three catches in 20 overs and also gave away easy runs because of poor ground fielding that allowed the opponents to get to a respectable total. Speaking at the press conference Raj focussed on the importance of good catching in big tournaments.
“[Fielding is] always part of the training sessions but then no matter how much you train – even as a batter obviously you will have a ball that you get out to no matter how good a technically sound batter you are. It goes [the same] even for fielders. You might be the best fielder in the world, but there would be a point sometimes it happens in the sport that you drop catches. But not necessarily do you have to say that it’s a bad fielding side or a bad fielder. It’s just part of the sport,” Raj said during the press conference, reported Scroll.
“But yes, it will be playing on our mind that we shouldn’t be doing the same mistakes in the coming matches because at some point it might cost us. We’ve seen in the previous games, in the previous tournaments, how important it is to take catches.”
The former skipper also mentioned that she wants to see an IPL-style T20 league for the women cricketers as well. The Indian cricket board had previously hosted an exhibition T20 game for the women cricketers during the last edition of the cash-rich league.
“Well, I definitely see IPL in say a year or two definitely because a lot of people back at home
“Well, I don’t sit in the BCCI office, so I don’t know. But as a
Raj, who is almost 36-year-old, thinks that this might be her last World T20 event. She has been a part of the Indian team since 1999 in international cricket and thinks that the Indian side is settling down after the transition phase.
“I see representing the country is the biggest motivation and inspiration no matter how many years you spend there wearing the India
“But yes, when you also think that the team has gone through a lot of transition, and there are a lot of youngsters in the side, so at some point more than myself, whether I would be able to give the best or not, there are times when I think about the team, whether it is the right time to move forward, and I believe that now the team is settling, so it could probably be the last World Cup for me, the T20 format,” she added.
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