India may not have the experience but T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur believes that they the hosts won’t let up on the intensity during the Twenty20 tri-series against England and Australia starting in Mumbai on Thursday.
England and Australia have players, who compete in the Women’s Big Bash League and other T20 leagues which makes them very strong units in the shortest format of the game.
“No doubt they [England and Australia players] have lot of experience, because they have played T20 format. We know we are not as powerful in our strength as compared to the foreign players. We are working on it daily,” Harmanpreet said at a media interaction on Wednesday.
“Right now, for us as a team it is a learning process and preparing for the World Cup and day by day we are taking the challenges. We know both the teams are good in T20 and we will like to give them a fight,” she added.
India had comprehensively beaten South Africa 3-1 in the five match T20 series last month and Harmanpreet said the team were building on that.
“When we played T20 in South Africa, everybody enjoyed it because we were playing the format after 14-16 months. And this is the second series and everyone is positive. I know that we did not do well in ODIs, but despite that everyone’s approach is good and we will do better in this tournament,” she said.
The team were blanked 0-3 by Australia in the three-match ODI series at Vadodara last week and Harmanpreet pointed out fielding as a key area India needs to improve on.
“In the T20 format, there are lot of areas where we need to improve and a big thing where we are lacking is our fielding, because if you see the ODI series, (because of) fielding we have given a lot of runs,” she said.
“In the T20 format, it is a short format, we will give our 100% and girls are looking confident and we will do better,” captain in the shortest format of the game added.