Indian women’s team gets ready for T20 swing vs South Africa

Chennai, July 4

The Indian women’s team will be eager to use the three-match T20I series against South Africa, beginning here from tomorrow, as a platform to fine-tune its strategies before hitting the road to the Asia Cup and the T20 World Cup.

Working hard on fielding: Jemimah

Chennai: India batter Jemimah Rodrigues said today that the team was focussing on improving its fielding, dubbing the department as a “game-changer”, ahead of the T20I series against South Africa. “We have clarity in our plans across the three departments. The work is ongoing in fielding to keep getting better because it is one department that is a game-changer,” she said. “In fielding, the Indian team is setting high standards. We will continue to do everything to maintain it.” PTI

In fact, this is India’s last white-ball bilateral series ahead of the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka from July 19 and the ICC showpiece in Bangladesh from October 4.

In that context, the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side will leave no stone unturned in their effort to embark for those big events in the best possible frame of mind.

They have displayed signs of it too in the preceding three-match ODI series in Bengaluru and in the one-off Test here.

A relentless India won both despite the Proteas being a tricky proposition.

Since 2023, India have featured in seven T20I series, winning three of them and losing four. They would certainly want to bridge that gap.

India will take consolation from the form of their players in the first two legs of this series.

In the ODIs, vice-captain and star batter Smriti Mandhana shone brightly with two hundreds and a fifty in three matches, while Harmanpreet found her feet with a hundred in the final ODI.