Kiran Navgire’s blistering 51 off 27 balls wasn’t sufficient to assist UP Warriorz safe its first factors of the WPL season. After UP’s seven-wicket loss to Delhi Capitals on Wednesday, the opener mentioned her knock had given her a confidence increase heading into the Bengaluru leg.
“I caught to my primary plan of watching and hitting the ball. The runs that you just rating within the PowerPlay profit in changing begins,” mentioned Kiran after the match.
“I attempted to make full use of the PowerPlay. I used to be attempting to execute the plan of hitting the ball arduous. At the moment’s knock gave me numerous confidence, and it’ll assist me going ahead within the event. There’s a match-winning knock additionally within the offing,” she mentioned.
Kiran gave her aspect a robust begin earlier than the Capitals stormed again with a few essential wickets. She felt that the Warriorz, who managed to put up 166 on the board, had been quick by just a few runs.
“It was an excellent pitch for batting. Round 180 would have been sufficient to win the match. However we fell quick by 10 to fifteen runs,” she mentioned.
Whereas Meg Lanning and Shafali Verma’s partnership helped DC take management of the chase, the Deepti Sharma-led aspect clawed its method again with fast wickets. Kiran mentioned the main target was not on taking wickets however on constructing dot-ball stress.
“We mentioned taking the sport deep and rising the proportion of dot balls. We didn’t give attention to getting wickets as a result of it was a flat pitch which was simple for batting.
“Deepti could be very cool as a captain. It feels nice to play below her. She handles all of the gamers very effectively, and there’s by no means any stress,” she mentioned.
The Warriorz head into the second leg in Bengaluru with two losses from as many video games. Nevertheless, Kiran is assured that the staff will discover its footing quickly.
“The optimistic is that we’re a well-balanced staff. We are going to again our gamers and attempt to win all of the matches in Bengaluru.”