India frontrunner to win the women’s T20 World Cup, says head coach Amol Muzumdar | Cricket News

Indian women’s team head coach Amol Muzumdar said on Thursday that his team is the frontrunner to win the women’s T20 World Cup 2024.

Harmanpreet Kaur will bat at number three in T20 World Cup, Amol Muzumdar has said. (Photo: X)

New Delhi: A day ahead of India’s first match against New Zealand in women’s T20 World Cup 2024, head coach Amol Muzumdar said that the team is a frontrunner to win the showpiece event. Muzumdar, who was speaking to media on Thursday, said that Women’s Premier League (WPL) has acted as a great supply chain for the Indian national team.

India lock horns with the Kiwis in their first match at the Dubai International cricket stadium on Friday evening. The head coach, in the pre-match press conference, said that the response of the WPL was fantastic and it have been a very successful tournament.

WPL has helped to a great extent: Muzumdar

“I think WPL has been a very successful tournament so far in the last couple of editions. You have seen what response WPL has had. Obviously the stats have helped and we have dig into a lot of statistics and we have seen the results,” Muzumdar said in the pre-match press conference.

Additionally, he also said that the Indian team has a good bunch of players that can be pivotal in the side’s campaign at the big ICC event.

“That’s actually a good headache to have. We do have a lot of talent in the team, talent in this 15, and beyond as well. So, as I said, good headache to have. But me, Harman (Harmanpreet Kaur), Smriti (Mandhana), we enjoy that kind of stuff where we try out different combinations and then finally we have figured out the right combination that we are going to play tomorrow,” Muzumdar said.

The coach is also paying a lot of attention to the sixth bowling option in the side and also communicated that Harmanpreet will most probably bat at the number three position in the marquee event.

“Yeah, I mean, we’ve paid a lot of attention to the sixth bowling option. Also, for a fact that we have had multiple discussions on our top six, within our top six, at least three to four have to bowl,” he added.

(With PTI inputs)

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