Deepti Sharma feels that Indian group is heading in the right direction as far as preparations for the upcoming Women’s ODI World Cup are involved however needs to give attention to the continuing England sequence as the marquee occasion is still two months away.
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 house in opposition to Australia beginning September 14. The Women’s ODI World Cup begins on September 30 with India taking on Sri Lanka.
“Just in terms of preparation for the World Cup. I think as a team, we did some really good things in Sri Lanka and here also. World Cup is a little too far (away).
“We are not serious about that however positively we are going one match at a time. That’s what we are pondering at the second,” Deepti said at the post-match press conference after guiding team to four-wicket victory over England.
She feels that her calmness did help in achieving the target with ease and her stand of 90 with Jemimah Rodrigues was a game-changing one.
“I knew that I may be calm and composed. It (partnership with Rodrigues) was a turning level for us. We had centered that we’ve to give attention to partnership after 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 underneath any sort of stress 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.”
