Jhulan Goswami wasn\u2019t surprised that Shikha Pandey opted for the yorker to end the 20th over against New Zealand on Thursday. \u201cIt is the best option,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSome days it will work, on some it will not. That doesn\u2019t mean you won\u2019t go for the best option. She has always had control, is mentally strong and that is why she backed herself. The fact the team is in a good space, having won the first two games, too would have played a part in her decision,\u201d said Goswami, the world\u2019s leading wicket-taker in women\u2019s ODIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To that, Goswami added skipper Harmanpreet Kaur\u2019s supporting the medium-pacer from Goa. \u201cIn a line-up stacked with spinners, Harmanpreet and the team management backed her and today, she delivered. Shikhu is also the most experienced bowler in the team after Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Poonam Yadav .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Goswami and Pandey have shared new ball duties for India since 2015-16. \u201cShe would always try out things at nets, even attempting yorkers with the new ball. Practising yorkers by placing a boot or a bottle is something we have been doing for long. We would then calculate the percentage of how many we could successfully land,\u201d said Goswami, 37, who has retired from T20Is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In India\u2019s opener where Yadav\u2019s googlies foxed Australia, Pandey, 30, took 3\/14 in 3.5 overs. Against Bangladesh, she took 2\/14 and on a cold, windy Thursday in Melbourne\u2019s Junction Oval, Pandey stopped New Zealand from getting 16 in the final over after removing opener Rachel Priest. Her figures of 4-0-21-1 was the most economical among Indian bowlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese were against good teams. In her own way, she is having a good WorldT20. She was not in the squad for the last World T20 . It is only from the 2019 tour of New Zealand that Shikhu returned to the T20I squad. She had told me, \u2018Didi, if I am back in T20 squad, I will do justice to my talent,\u201d said Goswami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jhulan Goswami wasn\u2019t surprised that Shikha Pandey opted for the yorker to end the 20th over against New Zealand on Thursday. \u201cIt is the best option,\u201d she said. \u201cSome days it will work, on some it will not. That doesn\u2019t mean you won\u2019t go for the best option. She has always had control, is mentally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80859","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\/80859","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=80859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80861,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80859\/revisions\/80861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}