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"Those last six overs...": Harmanpreet Kaur reflects on India's loss to Australia in WC 2025

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Harmanpreet Kaur in post-match presentation in India vs Australia in World Cup 2025 [Source: X/@Shruti_v31]Harmanpreet Kaur in post-match presentation in India vs Australia in World Cup 2025 [Source: X/@Shruti_v31]

India put on a staggering total of 330 against Australia in the Women’s World Cup 2025 but failed to win the match. The famous top-order came to the party, but the lower-order collapsed, and India fell short of 30 to 40 runs eventually.

"We could have added more 30-40 runs on the board"

Pratika Rawal (75) and Smriti Mandhana (80) gave the start India needed in the Women’s World Cup match against Australia. The duo stitched together 155 runs and paved the way for the middle-order. However, the middle-order batters got good starts but could not capitalize on it. 

With India being 294/4 India were set for a daunting score against Australia. But they lost next six wickets within next 36 runs. The lower-order collapsed and India could manage to reach 330 in 48.5 overs. Although this was the first time that a team could score 300 runs batting first against Australia, India fell short of 30 to 40 runs.

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur echoed the same in the post-match presentation. Harman explained what caused India lose wickets frequently.

"The way we started we thought if we could have added more 30-40 runs on the board, we missed runs in the last six-seven overs. We kept losing wickets and that really cost us because today's pitch was totally different. We knew it was a good batting wicket, but those last six overs where we were not able to capitalise really cost us.”

She continued,

"Today the first 40 overs were really good and in the last 10 we were not executing well. In matches these things are going to happen, we are not going to be 100% all the time but it's very important how you come back."

Harmanpreet Kaur not keen on changing the team combination

Harmanpreet Kaur spoke about the team combination and shared her thoughts of keeping it unchanged. India now have five frontline batters, a wicketkeeper-batter, three allrounders, and two frontline bowlers. Harman remarked,

"We'll sit and discuss [about five bowlers] because this combination has given us a lot of success in the past. Two bad games are not going to make a big difference for us. Going forward there are a lot of things we need to sort it out and hopefully we'll come up with the best approach."

India will take on England next in the ongoing World Cup on October 19 at Indore, and the team has to win the match to stay alive in the competition.