Being a student of psychology has given Pratika Rawal some insight into how a human mind works and her gut feel told her that Shafali Verma, who came in as her replacement in the World Cup knock-outs, would do something special in the final.

Her intuition was right about Shafali even though it was all down to a cruel twist of fate that prevented Rawal from playing the two biggest games of her career because of an injured ankle and knee.