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Indian ladies’s group captain Harmanpreet Kaur had a clumsy second within the joint-captains’ press convention forward of the beginning of the Asia Cup 2024 on Friday. Addressing media, Harmanpreet was requested concerning the lack of assist for ladies’s cricket by a reporter. Whereas the India skipper wanted some help in understanding the query, she discovered the question each baffling and amusing. Even Sri Lanka ladies’s group skipper Chamari Athapaththu could not cease laughing on the query. The reporter cited the instance of Workforce India’s latest tour of Bangladesh as he questioned if one thing wanted to be accomplished about ladies’s cricket’s poor media protection.
“There have been considerations concerning the significance of ladies’s cricket, particularly after the Bangladesh tour. Much less journalists appeared at your press conferences. What’s your opinion on this?”
With a smile on her face, Harmanpreet responded saying: “Effectively, that is none of my enterprise. You guys have to come back and canopy us.”
Harmanrpeet’s Workforce India opens its Asia Cup 2024 account towards Pakistan on Friday. The India skipper is keen to start the marketing campaign on a profitable run.
“We at all times take pleasure in taking part in towards Pakistan however each group is essential. At any time when we go and play, we at all times wish to play good cricket, and we are going to comply with the identical methodology,” Harmanpreet stated within the pre-match press convention.
“This event is essential for all of us as a result of we give equal respect to this event and wish to enhance on the Asian in addition to on the world degree. So our focus will stay the identical as we put together for the T20 World Cup or another World Cup. Each sport is essential for us and we are going to attempt to give our greatest,” she added.
With India being the defending champions, Harmanpreet is eager to get her group to play a robust event and clinch the title as soon as once more.
“The problem can be to maintain doing the correct issues which we have now accomplished previously Asia Cups, maintain taking part in the identical kind of cricket, and maintain dominating different groups and luxuriate in our cricket,” she added.
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