India ladies’s head coach Amol Muzumdar has mentioned the Take a look at wins at dwelling towards England and Australia had been the “highest level” for his facet in the course of the gruelling season, the place India additionally misplaced seven out of 9 white-ball video games.
The coach additionally didn’t agree that skipper Harmanpreet Kaur was off form with the bat regardless of six consecutive single-digit scores, whereas conceding health, decision-making and DRS calls had been areas of concern for the facet.
India misplaced the T20I sequence to England 1-2 earlier than happening to Australia 0-3 and 1-2 in ODIs and T20Is respectively, however they excelled within the longest format, successful the one-off Checks towards the 2 sided by huge margins.
“The largest optimistic is the women have responded actually properly in all of the codecs. Whether or not it was Take a look at cricket — we performed Take a look at cricket after 9 years in India — not many had performed red-ball cricket until then. These two Take a look at matches had been the very best level,” Muzumdar mentioned throughout a media interplay at DY Patil Stadium after India misplaced the third and last T20I to Australia by seven wickets on Tuesday.
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Having taken cost of the staff shortly earlier than the beginning of the house season, Muzumdar conceded Indian gamers must work on their health and fielding, which was uncovered within the white-ball matches.
“We actually must, as I mentioned earlier, concentrate on our fielding and our health. Hopefully, within the following months, I’ll get an opportunity to work on it,” he mentioned.
“These are some areas the place now we have recognized as a gaggle that we have to increase the bar,” he mentioned.
Muzumdar added that India additionally must work on its decision-making expertise in addition to DRS calls.
“It’s simply that we have to get used to it and we have to get higher at it. With the (upcoming WPL) video games, even when they (gamers) get used to taking it within the WPL, in all probability we’d have a greater understanding of the DRS,” he mentioned.
“In the meanwhile, that’s one space the place I’ve mentioned earlier than the sequence that it might be a game-changer, and I nonetheless keep that. However we have to work on that,” he added.
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The pinnacle coach added he was pleased with the best way the squad managed 11 matches throughout codecs in 35 days towards two opponents.
“It’s fairly a credit score to all the women who had a gruelling season. It was robust. We had been taking part in England and we performed Australia back-to-back and in several codecs. I’m actually blissful that we’ve seen via the season.” “Not many, solely Shubha Satheesh… that (damage) additionally occurred on the day of the sport and it was a finger damage. Actually pleased with the sort of work that has been put in all through the season,” he added.
He mentioned fixed monitoring of gamers’ health was essential to avoiding accidents and well being points.
“We monitored everybody each alternate day. We stored a radical verify on what was taking place with all of the gamers, together with the substitutes who weren’t taking part in.” Muzumdar didn’t agree that Harmanpreet was off form.
“I wouldn’t say (she is off form) throughout codecs. In Take a look at matches, she bought a 49 after which 44 not out. Within the T20Is, it occurs to each cricketer. She’s been an ideal participant for India. I’m positive you’ll see some shiny performances within the close to future,” he added.