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JAMMU | WEDNESDAY | MARCH 10, 2021 JB SPORTS JAMMU BULLETIN 9 You cannot belong to team if you don’t Smriti Mandhana, Jhulan Goswami star as India perform your best everyday: Jhulan Goswami level series with 9-wicket win against South Africa MUMBAI,MAR 9: MUMBAI, MAR 9: this wicket was an advantage as it’s an In her late 30s, veteran India pacer early start. Veteran Jhulan Goswami’s four-wicket haul was beauti- Jhulan Goswami knows that consis- “There’s a bit of moisture in the fully complemented by Smriti morning. But it was much easier in the tent performance, backed by supreme Mandhana’s sparkling 80 not fitness, is paramount to stay relevant second innings and the wicket turned out as Indian women out- in the Indian women’s cricket team. pretty flat. You just need to play played South Africa by nine Goswami, who is 38, is the highest through the line. There’s a bit of wickets in the second ODI to wicket-taker in women’s ODIs with advantage there for the bowlers so level the five-match series 1- 231 scalps. far,” she said. 1 on Tuesday. On Tuesday she claimed 4 for 42 to The BCCI had on Monday The 38-year-old Goswami set up India’s nine-wicket win over announced that Indian women’s crick- returned with figures of 10-0- South Africa in the second ODI, help- et team will play a Test after more than 42-4 and she was ably sup- ing the side level the five-match series six years in a one-off match against ported by fellow seamer 1-1. England. Mansi Joshi (2/23) and left- “Representing India is the biggest India had played their last Test arm spinner Rajeshwari motivation for me. I don’t think you match in November 2014 against Gayakwad (3/37) as India dragged one to the stumps in In the 20th over, Mandhana have to look elsewhere for motiva- South Africa in Mysore and had dismissed South Africa for a the fifth over. picked up successive fours to tion,” Goswami said during the post- emerged victorious by an innings and paltry 157 after opting to While Indian women have get to her fifty in style, while match interaction. 34 runs. field. Opener Mandhana (80 not played for a year before Raut crossed the 50-mark “You cannot belong to the team if “Everyone is very excited. You not out off 64 balls) and Raut the ongoing series, Jemimah’s with an innovative short you don’t perform your best everyday. always want to play Test cricket. (62 not out, 89 balls) then poor form dates back to the behind the keeper. shared an unbeaten 138-run World T20 time as she hasn’t Mandhana eventually It’s important for us to maintain our That’s actually a lot of challenge both physically and mentally. We thank partnership for the second been amongst runs for a con- scored the winning runs with fitness and come out strong on the wicket with India overhauling siderable period of time. successive fours in the 29th field. It’s not going to be easy.” achievement. That’s my responsibility she said about the first ODI. BCCI for understanding the need of Test cricket,” Jhulan, who has compet- the target in only 28.4 overs Raut then took some time over. The pacer from Bengal had called it and job,” she said. But they returned strongly in the to bounce back from their to get going but Mandhana Earlier, Lara Goodall was ed in 10 Tests, said. quits from T20I format in 2018 in a Playing their first match after the second ODI with the Goswami-led eight-wicket loss in the first was in full flow as she picked the most successful surprise announcement ahead of the COVID-19 triggered a long layoff of attack bundling out South Africa for a The visiting captain Sune Luus ODI. Mandhana blasted 10 up boundaries regularly to batswoman for South Africa T20 World Cup in the West Indies. more than 12 months, the Mithali Raj- paltry 157 after they won a good toss blamed their sloppy batting behind fours and three sixes while keep the scoreboard ticking. as she scored a 77-ball 49, “When I retired from T20Is, the led India lost to South Africa by eight here. their loss. Raut dropped anchor at one If the short balls were dis- while skipper Sune Luus most important thing for me was to wickets in the first One-dayer here. In reply, opener Smriti Mandhana “It comes down to not having end but also hit eight bound- patched over the ropes, one chipped in with a 57-ball 36. just focus on one format. I had niggles India looked rusty and found the (80 not out off 64 balls) and Raut (62 enough runs on the board. It was a aries. Mandhana made her outside the off-stump was Electing to field, the Indian here and there. It was quite difficult going tough to be restricted for a pal- not out, 89 balls) scripted an easy win fresh wicket today and quite a lot of intentions clear right from the sent to the third-man bound- pacers were rewarded for for me to maintain (my fitness). try 177 for nine as the visitors cruised in only 28.4 overs. movement. start when she clubbed the ary with a deft late cut and bowling a probing line as “Then I spent a lot of time in train- to the target by eight wickets in 40.1 “It was a much disciplined bowling “They bowled extremely well with first two balls of her innings anything fullish was driven Goswami and Joshi made ing. I tried to do well everyday. As for overs. attack today. Today our planning was the new ball. But we did not execute for sixes off Shabnim Ismail through the covers. early breakthroughs, dismiss- me, I was doing a lot of training since “We played the first match after a absolutely spot on. It was an absolute our shots. It’s always going to be dif- (1/46). However, India lost an Raut exploded in the 15th ing openers Lizelle Lee (4) lockdown. I just kept following that. long gap, so took time to settle down. team effort,” she said. ficult when none of your top-four bat- early wicket when Jemimah over, blasting two fours off and Laura Wolvaardt (9) Representing India is my biggest We bowled both sides of the wicket,” Jhulan further said bowling first on ters bats till 40 overs,” Sune said. Rodrigues (8 off 19 balls) Nonkululeko Mlaba. cheaply. Rishabh Pant can be a match- It’s very disappointing, really slack: Langer Škriniar helps Inter beat winner in T20s: VVS Laxman on slow over-rate in Melbourne Test Atalanta 1-0 to go 6 points clear Pant had cracked a breath- pandemic. MILAN,MAR 9: taking 101 off 118 balls to “I remember we were in “Our rivals had won and closed the gap so it was inevitable help India score 365 in the the team room afterwards that we felt a certain pressure, which will keep on increasing,” fourth Test, besides scoring a Inter coach Antonio Conte said. “Moreover, we were facing an 97 at Sydney and an unbeaten and I spoke to Painey (skip- per Tim Paine) and Dene Atalanta side which takes points off all the big teams. We’ve 89 at Brisbane that led India taken home a really important win against a team which could to a historic series win Hills, our analyst, about it. I have disrupted our title bid but which is now 13 points behind against Australia in January. was a bit grumpy about it us.” It was the first time Atalanta failed to score away from India will be taking on and I thought ‘imagine if home in Serie A since 2019, and Gian Piero Gasperini’s side England in a five-match T20 this cost us the World Test remained fifth, a point behind Roma. “We had a good match, International series, starting Championship’,” Langer we’re satisfied but angry because of the result,” Gasperini said. on March 12. said. “For the game that we had we feel we deserved more than a Laxman, a veteran of 134 “And I mentioned it to the defeat. “But we were playing against Inter, which is first in the Tests, feels Pant can fulfil the standings and on course for the title: it’s their year. We’ll come players afterwards that two finisher’s role in the team out of this match stronger, with more belief.” Atalanta scored along with Hardik Pandya overs down could cost us 11 goals in its past three matches and came closest to taking the and Ravindra Jadeja. MELBOURNE,MAR 9: the Kiwis if not for that slow the World Test lead at the end of a tense first half as first Inter goalkeeper “In this situation, it could Head coach Justin Langer over-rate penalty.“This Championship. And so, we Samir Handanovic pulled off a fantastic save to deny Duván MUMBAI,MAR 9: Australia and the fourth Test Zapata then Marcelo Brozovic had to clear from practically on against England in just strengthen the finishers on Tuesday said Australia might be the silliest thing have to get better at that and Former batsman VVS the line from the ensuing corner. Inter broke the deadlock nine Laxman believes Rishabh Ahmedabad.“We have seen in the Indian team because were “really slack” in not I’ve ever said, but our man- make sure it doesn’t happen minutes after the break when Atalanta failed to properly clear a Pant can be a match-winner him play under pressure for over the last one and one and ager Gavin Dovey he’d been in Sydney and Brisbane.