Navi Mumbai, Oct 25 (PTI) India bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi on Saturday said the strength and conditioning team is monitoring wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh and players’ workloads is being managed carefully
considering the long duration of the Women’s World Cup.
India will take on Bangladesh in their final league match here on Sunday before their semifinal here on October 30. Ghosh’s absence from the optional training session here on Saturday was notable after she suffered a blow to her finger while keeping wickets in the game against New Zealand on Thursday.
“She is fine and the S&C team is taking care of it. They are still discussing, so I don’t have the exact updates about it but she looks fine,” Salvi told media after India’s training session.
The optional session was attended by skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and deputy Smriti Mandhana without training but those who practiced included Uma Chetry, who kept the wickets when Ghosh had to leave the field against New Zealand.
The others who trained were all-rounder Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav and Harleen Deol. Barring Deol, none of these players had featured against New Zealand.
“Since we entered into the World Cup, we knew that it’s a very long tournament and the workloads were planned accordingly,” Salvi said.
Salvi admitted there were “executional errors” from the bowlers earlier in the tournament when India lost three matches on the trot.
“If you see the powerplays we have been good. In the middle over segments also we have been good but there were a few errors which we made in between — obviously those were executional errors — which we have already identified,” he said.
“We work upon them into the nets to go towards it. In slogs (overs), yes, we want to get better and since it is a young bowling attack and they all are hungry to learn every day.” Salvi said given the dew factor at almost every venue India have played in this World Cup, they keep practicing to bowl with wet balls.
“If you talk about the dew and the current conditions that we are operating in, (we) already knew that dew will be there at each of the venue that we are going to play when we started off.” “(The) girls are practicing with the wet balls. In every practice session if you have a closer look, they start with the conventional dry ball and then as they get into (it further), they practice with the wet balls a lot.” With 14 wickets so far in six matches, Deepti Sharma has been India’s premier bowler in the World Cup and Salvi said working on getting more “zip” to her stock ball has worked in her favour.
“She is a champion player. Every time India needs a performance, Deepti has always raised her hands, be it batting, be it bowling, you go into the different, different series that we have played so far in the build up for the World Cup, she has always contributed,” he said.
“The skills in terms of her stock ball, she has worked upon that, (getting more) zip into the stock ball (is something) and different variation balls and getting accuracy and control over it,” Salvi said.
Bangladesh batter Sobhana Mostary said her side is still reeling from their last-over seven-run loss to Sri Lanka a few days ago, which ended their campaign.
“We are now (placed) eighth which is very disappointing. We won our match against Pakistan and we also created some (troubles) against big teams. It does not work that we lost against Sri Lanka, it was very hard and disappointed,” Mostary said.
“After losing that game we have not slept well for last four nights but our management isn’t talking about anything negative. They are only talking about positive things,” she said, while hoping that Bangladesh players like seamer Marufa Akter get an opportunity to play the Women’s Premier League. PTI DDV APA DDV AT AT
