Indian women look to build on special superover win

High on confidence after an inspirational Super Over win Indian women will look to maintain momentum with improved fielding and bowling performance against the mighty Australia in the third T20I here on WednesdayAfter the first two games at a packed D Y Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai the cricket caravan moves to the iconic Brabourne Stadium in the Southern part of the Maximum City where another belter of a track awaits the two teamsThe game on Sunday turned out be a perfect advert for womens cricket with a 47000 plus crowd witnessing an edge of the seat thrillerFor a change India who have often gone suicidal from winning positions against Australia were finally able to end up on the right side of the resultHowever the famous win is in the past now and as pointed out by batting coach acting head coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar in a stirring speech after the game India have a lot of work to do with the fivematch series locked at 11The ability has always been there to regularly compete with the likes of Australia but India need to do the little things to gain the remarkable consistency of their rivalsAlso read2nd T20I Smriti Richa power India Women to victory against Australia Women level series 11Indian batters have done their job but the bowling and fielding in the first two games left a lot to be desired The hosts have been able to take only two wickets in the series so far and that is a major concern The catching too has been pretty substandardThe pace department doesnt give a lot of hope with Meghna Singh leaking runs and rookie leftam pacer Anjali Sarvani not able to provide early breakthroughsRenuka Thakur who has been Indias standout bowler in the last six months too is yet to take a wicket To be fair to Renuka she does need a bit of nip in the air to let the ball do all the talkingWristspinner Devika Vaidya who is playing her first T20 series in eight years is yet to make an impact with the ball but did her bit with the willow in a tense situation with a couple of boundariesWith Yastika Bhatia warming the bench Jemimah Rodrigues needs to find the runs after two failures while opener Shafali Verma needs to build on her quickfire startsAustralia skipper Alyssa Healy would be eager to lead from the front in the crucial clash at CCIIndia ended their winning streak this year and Healy admitted that their bowling could have been better in the game Her opening Beth Mooney has shown unstoppable form and would look to continue in the same vein The same can be said about number three Tahlia McGrathAs many as four bowlers ended up with an economy rate of 10 plus runs per over and Australia would be expected to correct that on WednesdaySquads Australia squad Alyssa Healy c Tahlia McGrath vc Darcie Brown Nicola Carey Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Heather Graham Grace Harris Jess Jonassen Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Beth Mooney Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel SutherlandIndia squad Harmanpreet Kaur c Smriti Mandhana vc Shafali Verma Yastika Bhatia Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Radha Yadav Rajeshwari Gayakwad Renuka Singh Thakur Meghna Singh Anjali Sarvani Devika Vaidya S Meghana Richa Ghosh Harleen DeolMatch starts 7 pm ISTThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever