Twin benefit: Harmanpreet’s Women in Blue may have the privilege of taking part in at house and additionally get enormous assist from the followers, in accordance to Rachael Haynes.
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Rachael Haynes believes it’s going to be a detailed girls’s ODI World Cup. And she is aware of a factor or two about profitable them as she has two glittering trophies in her cupboard.
“I think it is going to be a really hard-fought tournament, and it’s going to be tricky,” the previous Australian captain advised The Hindu right here.
“In the ODI series, we have seen the conditions that Indian and Australian players have played in. It is going to be really tough physically for players, spending a long time in the field in the heat and then having to switch into batting mode if you get that opportunity.”
Looking forward to the World Cup, beginning in Guwahati on September 30, she wouldn’t thoughts India and Australia going through off in the ultimate. “I would absolutely love to see that,” says Haynes, who was the second highest scorer on the final World Cup in New Zealand with 497 runs at a median of 62.12, contributing handsomely to Australia’s victory.
Which groups does she fancy taking part in in the semifinals at this World Cup?
“Apart from Australia and India, I think England will be there,” she says. “Charlotte Edwards is such a fantastic coach. Heather Knight coming back into the side will make a difference. And I feel South Africa will get through just.”
Haynes, who made 2585 runs from 77 matches and struck two tons of and 19 fifties, feels the World Cup will give one other increase to girls’s cricket in India. “I even noticed it, flying into India, the interest in women’s cricket was very visible,” she says.
“You could see that people were talking about the tournament, that it is being promoted. And this is a real opportunity for the Indian side and a huge privilege (for India) to play in a home World Cup and to have that support around.”
Published – September 22, 2025 11:19 pm IST