WPL – India Ladies coach Amol Muzumdar desires to create a pool of 20-25 gamers

India Ladies head coach Amol Muzumdar sees the continuing WPL 2024 as a possibility to broaden the crew’s assets.”I’d need one other pool of 20-25 gamers to create a bench power for the Indian crew,” he stated whereas commentating on the sport between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Giants on Tuesday night. “4 quick bowlers performed the final sequence, I wish to create a pool of quick bowlers [from the WPL]. It makes numerous distinction for those who strengthen the bowling assault.”Muzumdar took over as head coach late final 12 months simply earlier than the house sequence in opposition to England and Australia. India gained every of the one-off Checks in opposition to them however misplaced all of the white-ball sequence which included an analogous scoreline of 2-1 within the T20I sequence to England and Australia, together with a 3-0 thrashing from Australia within the ODIs.

The 4 quicks who performed within the white-ball matches had been Renuka Singh, Titas Sadhu and the allrounders Pooja Vastrakar and Amanjot Kaur. For the Checks India additionally had Meghna Singh within the squad however she did not get to play both of the video games. India might really feel a lightness of their tempo assault since Jhulan Goswami retired in 2022. In addition they seem to have moved on from the skilled Shikha Pandey. who made a short comeback in T20Is in early 2023 however hasn’t performed any of their current video games.

Talking of gamers reminiscent of Saika Ishaque and Shreyanka Patil, promising abilities who can stand up the WPL pathway and push for a everlasting spot within the India facet, Muzumdar additionally lauded Sajeevan Sajana, who gained Mumbai Indians the opening recreation of this WPL with a first-ball six on the final ball of the sport after they wanted 5 to win.

“Sajana’s six offers you an concept of the depth in Indian cricket,” he stated.

An unknown identify who did not want the WPL to win a nationwide cap is Karnataka batter Satheesh Shubha. She made her debut within the Take a look at match in opposition to England and struck a highly-composed half-century however missed the sport in opposition to Australia due to harm. Muzumdar stated he had noticed her throughout a warm-up match forward of the house season and instantly determined to play her on the worldwide degree.

“I organised a match on the NCA right here on the Chinnaswamy Stadium,” he stated. “It was a four-day warm-up match and he or she (Shubha) did very properly there – she scored 99 and 50. She’s a left-hander and bats properly at No. 3. After seeing her within the nets I had determined to bat her at No. 3. Not many gamers had seen her on the time.

“I will thank Harman (India captain Harmanpreet Kaur) as a result of she agreed for the decision instantly.”

Muzumdar added that India had held a camp earlier than their two most up-to-date assignments, with specific deal with the health and fielding. “Within the first assembly earlier than the England and Australia sequence we had cleared that health and fielding are non-negotiable. Each participant is working in direction of it, it is not simply discuss. There’s clear pondering and planning behind it.”

After 5 video games within the second season of the WPL, Muzumdar was happy to see the runs being scored from a few of the India batters, reminiscent of S Meghana (RCB), Richa Ghosh (RCB) and Shafali Verma (Delhi Capitals).

“There may be an upscale motion in India’s batters,” he stated. “The boldness from these two sequence in opposition to England and Australia is on show due to how they carried out there.”

Earlier than the WPL had began, Harmanpreet had additionally stated the uncapped gamers can use the WPL as a platform to interrupt into the India squad with a T20 World Cup arising in September-October in Bangladesh.