This story was in the beginning revealed in Mumbai Mirror on January four, 2019.
Harmanpreet Kaur has been named captain of the International Cricket Council’s T20I group of the year 2018. In November, she led India to their first semi-final of the T20 World Cup since 2010, the place the group misplaced to England in Antigua.
The year 2018 may also be remembered for her relatively public spat with senior participant and ODI captain Mithali Raj, who was dropped for the semis.
The mess ended in the exit of coach Ramesh Powar and the next appointment of WV Raman.
Mirror stuck up with Kaur the day past as she watched the first day’s play of the fourth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Kaur is representing Sydney Thunder within the ongoing Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL).
You were named captain of the ICC T20I Team of the Year 2018. How is the feeling and have been you anticipating it?
I am really satisfied about it. To be truthful, I had never considered it. I had always sought after the group to do smartly within the T20 structure. We have been doing smartly within the 50-over sport but this year we have now done smartly within the T20 structure also. This praise is both recognition of how smartly the group has done and likewise a motivation for the long run.
The ladies’s sport in India has made rapid progress. We at the moment are reaching the overall and semis of ICC tournaments. What do you attribute that to?
In contemporary instances, the whole mindset of the players has changed. The fitness levels have also advanced. We were giving extra chances to youngsters and these women just need to categorical themselves. The center of attention has shifted from individual performances to performance as a group. And this has formed the foundation of higher results.
You spoke about mindset, how has this change come about?
Earlier our group was too depending on senior players. The considering was that the senior players needed to take all the workload. But all over the new ICC T20 World Cup, coach Ramesh Powar instructed all of us that each and every participant within the group is not just equal but similarly vital. He met all the players for my part and gave transparent message to them. In the three previous editions of the T20 World Cup before this one in West Indies, we were not able to succeed in even the semis. After those chats, the players realised their significance. These one-on-one sessions went some distance in how we carried out.
But of course, there are areas the place we're lagging. Like we're starting tournaments smartly but aren't able to win tournaments. I think we're missing a bit of mental balance all over the knock-out phases. We have to paintings on this space in particular if we need to win large tournaments.
Powar is historical past now. Have you got a possibility to talk to the new coach Raman?
I had met Raman sir at the National Cricket Academy a few instances. I do know he comes with a large number of revel in. I have heard from several people about Raman sir’s technical and tactical acumen. I think this stuff will help the group.
How will the debate affect the group? Soon you will be sharing the dressing room with Mithali again…
When you play at world level, you're mature enough to not let such things affect you. At the end of the day what matters is that you are taking part in for the rustic. That needs to be the concern. Team is like a circle of relatives the place there are troubles and problems that stay cropping up. But this stuff can’t be taken personally. The best factor is to sit down across the desk and clear up the issues. The problem is not as large because it has come to be noticed. The group has stayed in combination and that’s the explanation we have now done smartly not too long ago.
There were too many leaks about what transpired between you, Mithali and Powar. How do you intend to take recent guard given that background?
I don’t suppose there was any problem between me and Mithali. I will be able to talk for myself. You have to talk to her and ask if she has an issue with me. I have always respected her as a senior. We are mature enough to take care of the placement. We must play as a unit to take the group ahead. We are extra group players than folks. If you take into consideration the group purpose, you will put your head down and paintings against that. I have met her and spoken to her finally these occasions and we seem to have moved on.
When the coach and the captain want a certain factor and a senior participant is not buying into that, how do you take care of the placement? This looked as if it would were the case in West Indies…
No participant is bigger than the group. When a group is doing smartly, all the contributors have to suppose on these strains handiest. I still feel that the placement should not have come to this but now and again such things occur. I don’t suppose the issues should were highlighted such a lot. But everybody has their personal perspectives and I won’t comment on that.
The ladies’s sport has also become about power. You and Smriti Mandhana have shown that massive sixes can also be hit into the stands. How do you get ready?
Now some of us are taking part in T20 games back-to-back. Earlier we used to have maybe ten fits in a year. In that scenario you're always considering, ‘what will occur if I fail in two-three games?’ But when you find yourself taking part in in leagues just like the WBBL in Australia or the one in England, you get extra games to perform. By taking part in in these leagues you gain revel in and that helps when you find yourself taking part in at world level. Look at how Mandhana has advanced within the last one-and-ahalf years.
In these leagues you're taking part in with women who have extra collective revel in within the structure. In the Indian group we have now players who have much much less match revel in. When these players move to special tournaments the place they have got to win back-to-back games, the drive can get to you. On the opposite hand groups like Australia and England are stuffed with players who have already long gone via such pressures of their T20 leagues. India handiest has two or 3 such players. We want a league of our own in India. Such a league will give extra women revel in to take care of drive.
But do we have now the depth within the ladies’s sport to start a T20 league in India?
See it's important to create the depth. This can’t be used as an excuse to not have a ladies’s T20 league in India. Even if we don’t have (it now), in the future we can have to make a start someplace. You can’t be looking ahead to an afternoon when other nations have reached a level the place it becomes not possible to catch them. It’s vital that we begin a league at the earliest in order that younger players get a possibility to rub shoulders with overseas players. This will help building up the arrogance.
So you are saying the skill is there…
Of direction. I adopted a bit of the Under-19 match this year and some women have been really impressive. Now they are in search of a platform. The previous we get a league moving into India, the better it'll be. For the first few years it would not be proper to have too many expectations. But I will be able to make it possible for improvement might be there with every passing year.
Harmanpreet Kaur has been named captain of the International Cricket Council’s T20I group of the year 2018. In November, she led India to their first semi-final of the T20 World Cup since 2010, the place the group misplaced to England in Antigua.
The year 2018 may also be remembered for her relatively public spat with senior participant and ODI captain Mithali Raj, who was dropped for the semis.
The mess ended in the exit of coach Ramesh Powar and the next appointment of WV Raman.
Mirror stuck up with Kaur the day past as she watched the first day’s play of the fourth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Kaur is representing Sydney Thunder within the ongoing Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL).
You were named captain of the ICC T20I Team of the Year 2018. How is the feeling and have been you anticipating it?
I am really satisfied about it. To be truthful, I had never considered it. I had always sought after the group to do smartly within the T20 structure. We have been doing smartly within the 50-over sport but this year we have now done smartly within the T20 structure also. This praise is both recognition of how smartly the group has done and likewise a motivation for the long run.
The ladies’s sport in India has made rapid progress. We at the moment are reaching the overall and semis of ICC tournaments. What do you attribute that to?
In contemporary instances, the whole mindset of the players has changed. The fitness levels have also advanced. We were giving extra chances to youngsters and these women just need to categorical themselves. The center of attention has shifted from individual performances to performance as a group. And this has formed the foundation of higher results.
You spoke about mindset, how has this change come about?
Earlier our group was too depending on senior players. The considering was that the senior players needed to take all the workload. But all over the new ICC T20 World Cup, coach Ramesh Powar instructed all of us that each and every participant within the group is not just equal but similarly vital. He met all the players for my part and gave transparent message to them. In the three previous editions of the T20 World Cup before this one in West Indies, we were not able to succeed in even the semis. After those chats, the players realised their significance. These one-on-one sessions went some distance in how we carried out.
But of course, there are areas the place we're lagging. Like we're starting tournaments smartly but aren't able to win tournaments. I think we're missing a bit of mental balance all over the knock-out phases. We have to paintings on this space in particular if we need to win large tournaments.
Powar is historical past now. Have you got a possibility to talk to the new coach Raman?
I had met Raman sir at the National Cricket Academy a few instances. I do know he comes with a large number of revel in. I have heard from several people about Raman sir’s technical and tactical acumen. I think this stuff will help the group.
How will the debate affect the group? Soon you will be sharing the dressing room with Mithali again…
When you play at world level, you're mature enough to not let such things affect you. At the end of the day what matters is that you are taking part in for the rustic. That needs to be the concern. Team is like a circle of relatives the place there are troubles and problems that stay cropping up. But this stuff can’t be taken personally. The best factor is to sit down across the desk and clear up the issues. The problem is not as large because it has come to be noticed. The group has stayed in combination and that’s the explanation we have now done smartly not too long ago.
There were too many leaks about what transpired between you, Mithali and Powar. How do you intend to take recent guard given that background?
I don’t suppose there was any problem between me and Mithali. I will be able to talk for myself. You have to talk to her and ask if she has an issue with me. I have always respected her as a senior. We are mature enough to take care of the placement. We must play as a unit to take the group ahead. We are extra group players than folks. If you take into consideration the group purpose, you will put your head down and paintings against that. I have met her and spoken to her finally these occasions and we seem to have moved on.
When the coach and the captain want a certain factor and a senior participant is not buying into that, how do you take care of the placement? This looked as if it would were the case in West Indies…
No participant is bigger than the group. When a group is doing smartly, all the contributors have to suppose on these strains handiest. I still feel that the placement should not have come to this but now and again such things occur. I don’t suppose the issues should were highlighted such a lot. But everybody has their personal perspectives and I won’t comment on that.
The ladies’s sport has also become about power. You and Smriti Mandhana have shown that massive sixes can also be hit into the stands. How do you get ready?
Now some of us are taking part in T20 games back-to-back. Earlier we used to have maybe ten fits in a year. In that scenario you're always considering, ‘what will occur if I fail in two-three games?’ But when you find yourself taking part in in leagues just like the WBBL in Australia or the one in England, you get extra games to perform. By taking part in in these leagues you gain revel in and that helps when you find yourself taking part in at world level. Look at how Mandhana has advanced within the last one-and-ahalf years.
In these leagues you're taking part in with women who have extra collective revel in within the structure. In the Indian group we have now players who have much much less match revel in. When these players move to special tournaments the place they have got to win back-to-back games, the drive can get to you. On the opposite hand groups like Australia and England are stuffed with players who have already long gone via such pressures of their T20 leagues. India handiest has two or 3 such players. We want a league of our own in India. Such a league will give extra women revel in to take care of drive.
But do we have now the depth within the ladies’s sport to start a T20 league in India?
See it's important to create the depth. This can’t be used as an excuse to not have a ladies’s T20 league in India. Even if we don’t have (it now), in the future we can have to make a start someplace. You can’t be looking ahead to an afternoon when other nations have reached a level the place it becomes not possible to catch them. It’s vital that we begin a league at the earliest in order that younger players get a possibility to rub shoulders with overseas players. This will help building up the arrogance.
So you are saying the skill is there…
Of direction. I adopted a bit of the Under-19 match this year and some women have been really impressive. Now they are in search of a platform. The previous we get a league moving into India, the better it'll be. For the first few years it would not be proper to have too many expectations. But I will be able to make it possible for improvement might be there with every passing year.
No problem between me and Mithali, says Harmanpreet
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