Sylhet (Bangladesh), Oct 7 (IANS) After suffering a 13-run loss to Pakistan in Women’s Asia Cup, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur admitted that giving batting chances to other batters backfired inside the in shape.

After the forty one-run victory over Sri Lanka in the opening suit of the tournament, India had been experimenting with their batting order against Malaysia and the UAE, which resulted in wins.

In Friday’s healthy against Pakistan, Dayalan Hemalatha, Pooja Vastrakar and Deepti Sharma were sent in to bat in advance of Harmanpreet who got here out to bat at wide variety seven in place of her traditional number four position.

But the test failed to provide favored results and no matter Richa Ghosh’s overdue cameo of 26 off simply 13 balls, hitting 3 sixes and a 4, India fell quick of target via thirteen runs, bowled out for 124 in 19.4 overs.

“In the middle, we had been looking to deliver the chance to different batters, which fee us nowadays. Because you have to try this as the match goes on, but it backfired. It changed into a chaseable target. In the middle overs, we were now not able to take singles and rotate strike, we performed too many dot balls,” said Harmanpreet within the post-match presentation ceremony.

The 13-run loss changed into just the 0.33 time India misplaced to Pakistan in T20Is and additionally, their first loss to their arch-opponents in the records of Women’s Asia Cup.

“For me it is crucial that whoever is new inside the facet, they ought to appropriate wide variety of games heading into the World Cup, due to the fact whenever you exchange the aspect the gamers coming in must be ready. It changed into a top notch possibility for others,” delivered Harmanpreet.

India now have less than 24 hours to regroup and make a turnaround in opposition to hosts and protecting champions Bangladesh, a facet they misplaced to in the 2018 Women’s Asia Cup very last.

“We are aware about that and by no means take any group gently. It is a part of the sport. Yesterday, Thailand performed a great sport. Today, they (Pakistan) performed top cricket, and they came up trumps and deserved to win it. Going ahead, we want to paintings on the ones regions and be sturdy,” asserted Harmanpreet.

Pakistan skipper Bismah Maroof become elated with how her side carried out their plans to perfection towards India and applauded senior all-rounder Nida Dar for her all-round show with the bat and ball.

Nida first slammed an attacking 56 not out off 37 balls for Pakistan to get 137/6 in 20 overs. With the ball, she bagged figures of two/23 in her four overs of off-spin, along with the wickets of Harmanpreet.

“Very crucial sport for us after the day gone by. We finished the matters thoroughly. How Nida batted fantastically. We simply wanted to take calculated dangers. Nida performed a essential innings for us and helped us get a great overall.”

“In the middle we had been seeking out gaps, and we realize Nida can hit so we look to hit the electricity areas. We failed to determine the conditions well (the day past). We read the conditions well today. We done the plans very well nowadays.”

Nida, adjudged as Player of the healthy for her all-round exploits, revealed that she became looking for her hitting zones with the bat to position India underneath pressure. “It was a slow begin but I went there and talked to Bismah and she or he said appearance we must make a partnership right here.”

“It turned into an awesome wicket for the batters but it turned into my role to play an innings like that. It became like I wanted to find my hitting areas. We want to paintings on our remaining three to 4 overs and need to finish nicely.”