“Cricket is like a God, it gave me everything”: India captain Harmanpreet Kaur

Ahead of the Women’s Asia Cup game against Nepal, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur said that cricket is like a “god” to her as it has given her everything. The Women in Blue will aim to make it three wins as they continue to defend their women’s Asian Cup title against Nepal on Tuesday. Although India are at the top of Group A with two wins from two games and are almost certain to reach the semi-finals, they would like to win this last group game to keep the momentum going. So far, India has scored victories against arch-rivals Pakistan and UAE.

Speaking exclusively to ” target=”_blank”>Sports StarHarmanpreet said, “Cricket, I think, is everything to me. Without cricket, I don’t think I would be anything. The name that cricket gave me, no other field could have given me. So I think, for me, the cricket is like a god. Everything I dreamed of in my childhood, everything I dreamed of while playing, everything was given to me by cricket.

Harmanpreet recalled that when he held the Indian jersey for the first time, he took a photo after putting it on. After that, she was confused about whether she should share the photo with her parents or her coach first.

“I can say that off the field, when I held the Indian jersey for the first time, I took a photo after wearing it for the first time and I was first thinking about who deserves this photo. parents, or the coach who gave me this platform, who gave me admission to his school, and said, ‘I’m going to start school cricket for you’, should I send it to him? So I was so confused, who should I send? first, because they were both equally important to me”, said the captain.

Talking about her favorite moment on the field, Kaur said her knock of 171* off 115 balls against Australia in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 semi-final stands out for her.

“On the field in 2017, when I scored 171, that was incredible. I remember before that game one of my friends told me: ‘We will only win tomorrow if you score 150 runs’. I said, ‘150 runs? I heard you’re going to score 100 runs, you’re going to win 150 runs tomorrow, I mean, what’s that demand, right? So that was in my head all night, and I was thinking, ‘It’s the Australian team, so I’m going to have to play something different to beat them,’ because they had a really strong team. very special to me,” recalled Harmanpreet.

Harmanpreet said that in the last seven to eight years the team’s performance has been very good. But before that, they were unable to win as many tournaments and play an aggressive brand of cricket, she added.

“That’s why we always discuss that if there are two options, we will always choose the aggressive option. Before it seemed like we were playing timidly. we played some brave cricket, so we made brave decisions. Over time, we forced people to come to the stadium during our performance,” she concluded.

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