Communicating with younger Indian gamers, serving to them navigate the tough roads shall be excessive on Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur’s agenda for his or her WPL opener in opposition to Gujarat Giants on Saturday.
The league shall be an enormous alternative for home Indian gamers, who’ve been in obscurity like their male counterparts till the IPL began in 2008.
Harmanpreet, who herself hails from Moga in Punjab, recalled her preliminary days within the Indian crew and the way her former seniors helped her break the ice.
He stated, ‘It may be very troublesome for a younger participant coming into the crew to speak to a senior participant. I ensure that to succeed in out to them,” Harmanpreet stated within the pre-match convention.
“I bear in mind this from my early days once I joined the Indian crew, Jhuludi (Jhulan Goswami) and Anjumadi (Anjum Chopra) made me really feel snug.
“They have been those who got here as much as me and talked to me. They have been additionally very curious to learn about me. This is one thing that I’ve discovered from her and I attempt to observe the identical factor with different ladies right here.
After a decent worldwide schedule during the last decade, Harmanpreet hasn’t acquired an opportunity to work together with numerous home gamers and budding children, which she plans to do through the event.
“First, I did not get sufficient time or alternative to know extra in regards to the home gamers and speak to them in regards to the sort of cricket they need to play or the sort of enchancment they need.
“We have somebody like Sonam Yadav within the MI crew, who performed within the Under-19 World Cup and I spoke to her yesterday. She was asking me questions on how he bowled in some observe matches yesterday (Thursday) and what I thought of his bowling.
“We also have Dhara Gurjar, she did really well in the practice match, her approach towards the game, how she was running between the wickets, a lot of positive things all around,” he noticed.
Bowlers have an opportunity to be taught from Jhulan
Getting an opportunity to choose the mind of the legendary Jhulan Goswami is not any imply feat.
“We have Jhulan Goswami who is deeply involved with the girls, she already knows most of them as she was traveling with the Bengal team in domestic cricket. She knows him very well. He has shown trust in them,” stated Harmanpreet.
For some, there could be a distinction between captaining the nationwide crew and the franchise crew.
But Harmanpreet begs to vary.
“It has nearly felt the identical until now. I have never observed any main distinction. But one large problem which all the time stays, which we now have additionally mentioned is the way to talk with international gamers in addition to home gamers. Go
“We are already doing a little crew bonding classes the place they’re speaking with one another and attending to know one another as a lot as attainable in a brief time frame. Working on.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
