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On the eve of the three-match T20I series opener against South Africa in Chennai India's finisher Richa Ghosh spent close to half an hour in centre wicket nets adjacent to the match pitch tonking nearly every ball onto the make-shift sightscreen. On the sidelines of her range-hitting session were Pooja Vastrakar and Renuka Thakur - India's usual boundary riders - practising high-catching. The duo made the most of India's sole session under lights.
Covering every angle as they went along the whole arc on Ghosh's leg-side. Fielding as a department has been a pain point for an otherwise consistently-improving Indian side something that head coach Amol Muzumdar has stressed on time and again and something that Jemimah Rodrigues reiterated India are focusing all their energies on. "As the Indian women's cricket team we are setting our standards high and we will continue to do whatever it takes to maintain that standard and keep going. We know from a very long time that if there's one thing that we've been [lagging] somewhere.
That we're missing somewhere it's fielding." Rodrigues's return from the back injury brings this Indian team nearly their first-choice full-strength squad looking at their busy T20I calendar ahead. The three games against South Africa starting Friday (July 5) are scheduled in Chennai to get them as close a simulation of conditions they're expecting on the road both in the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka that starts later this month and the T20 World Cup due in Bangladesh in October. India boast of the problem of plenty in both the batting and spin departments courtesy the WPL.
D Hemalatha went on to earn a national recall adding to India's rich top-order reserves. She made it count this time scoring 109 runs at 141.55 strike-rate in the injury-forced absence of Rodrigues to give the management a happy headache for the eternal No. 3 debate. At the opposite end of the age spectrum Shreyanka Patil and Asha Sobhana have gone on to make their India debuts. Among the many success stories is also that of Radha Yadav who returned to the national colours with a Player of the Series award in Bangladesh picking 10 wickets in five games at an economy just a shade over 5.