Deepti Sharma feels that Indian staff is heading in the right direction so far as preparations for the upcoming Women’s ODI World Cup are involved however needs to deal with the continued England sequence because the marquee occasion remains to be two months away. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Deepti scored a composed 62 not out in India’s profitable chase of 259 within the opening WODI in opposition to England on Wednesday. This is India’s penultimate 50-over sequence with one left at dwelling in opposition to Australia beginning September 14. The Women’s ODI World Cup begins on September 30 with India taking up Sri Lanka.
“Just by way of preparation for the World Cup. I believe as a staff, we did some actually good issues in Sri Lanka and right here additionally. World Cup is a bit too far (away).
“We are not thinking about that but definitely we are going one match at a time. That’s what we are thinking at the moment,” Deepti stated on the post-match press convention after guiding staff to four-wicket victory over England.
She feels that her calmness did assist in attaining the goal with ease and her stand of 90 with Jemimah Rodrigues was a game-changing one.
“I knew that I might be calm and composed. It (partnership with Rodrigues) was a turning level for us. We had centered that we have now to deal with partnership once I was batting with Jemie (Rodrigues’ nickname).
“When we we were at the crease, the plan was to go at 5-6 runs per over and that’s what we did.” Deepti has typically obtained flak about her batting within the slog overs however by no means felt that she was beneath any sort of strain throughout her time within the center.
“Actually, I was not nervous because I played this kind of situation earlier and few matches back also. I knew that if I play till the end with Jemi, we can take the game. I was quite confident that if I will be there, I will have to finish and I was focusing more on that.”
Published – July 17, 2025 11:54 am IST
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