{"id":80147,"date":"2020-02-16T09:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T09:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=80147"},"modified":"2020-02-16T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T09:43:35","slug":"indias-top-four-must-bat-deeper-to-support-middle-order-smriti-mandhana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indias-top-four-must-bat-deeper-to-support-middle-order-smriti-mandhana\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s top four must bat deeper to support middle order &#8211; Smriti Mandhana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian\u2019s explosive top order needs to bat longer to support their wobbly middle order in the Women\u2019s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia, opener Smriti Mandhana said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandhana, teenaged duo of Shafali Verma and Jemima Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur headline what Australia coach Matthew Mott described as the most feared batting line-up in the tournament.Their middle order, however, looked vulnerable in Wednesday\u2019s tri-series final against Australia in Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chasing 156 for victory, India looked very much on the course before their spectacular collapse when they lost seven wickets for only 29 runs as the hosts triumphed by 11 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are some things we still have to figure out with our batting and we are trying hard to do that.\u201cThe best way to support the middle order is for the top order to bat 20 overs. I think we need to try and bat long as top four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India will take on defending champions Australia in the Feb. 21 tournament opener in Sydney and Mandhana expects the top order to fire them deep into the tournament.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian\u2019s explosive top order needs to bat longer to support their wobbly middle order in the Women\u2019s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia, opener Smriti Mandhana said on Saturday. Mandhana, teenaged duo of Shafali Verma and Jemima Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur headline what Australia coach Matthew Mott described as the most feared batting line-up in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80149,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80147\/revisions\/80149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}