Ind vs SA – girls’s collection – 1st ODI – Harmanpreet Kaur needs factors system for multi-format collection
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur is all in favour of the factors system in multi-format collection, saying that it’ll make issues “more difficult”.India’s dwelling collection towards South Africa begins with the primary of three ODIs on Sunday in Bengaluru, following which a one-off Take a look at and three T20Is will likely be performed in Chennai. The factors system just isn’t in place for the exchanges.
“It’s very as much as BCCI or ICC [to decide],” Harmanpreet mentioned on the eve of the collection opener. “However as a participant, if this stuff are there, gamers are extra into the sport and gamers are extra pumped up. If the factors system is there, it is more difficult and will likely be good to have.”
At the moment, the ladies’s Ashes collection makes use of a factors system with 4 factors up for grabs for Checks (4 for a win and two for a draw), and two for a limited-overs match. Whoever finishes with most factors win the Ashes. This technique was first launched within the 2013 collection in England to maintain the entire collection related.
In 2021, the factors system was additionally used for India’s tour of England, the primary time it had been used outdoors of the Ashes. India misplaced the collection 10-6 on factors. India’s final all-format collection – towards Australia at dwelling in December 2023-January 2024 – didn’t use the factors system with every format handled as separate.
It was additionally the final time India performed an ODI as the main focus has largely on the following T20 World Cup, to be performed this October in Bangladesh.
Sunday’s match will solely be India’s seventh ODI because the begin of 2023 . So far as the following 12 months’s ODI World Cup is worried, they’ve already gained automated qualification as hosts. Nevertheless, with a purpose to shake off the rust within the format, India had two separate camps in Bengaluru and Mumbai within the lead-up to the South Africa collection, enjoying a number of follow video games whereas at it.
“We take it as a chance,” Harmanpreet mentioned. “These days we’re enjoying extra T20 video games however ODIs are one thing that, as a participant, you might have extra time to evaluate your self and even the circumstances. It is good for us that we’re getting extra matches to precise ourselves.
“It is good for us that we’re getting extra time within the center and attending to play all three codecs as gamers.”
There was excellent news for India forward of the primary match with Harmanpreet confirming that each Jemimah Rodrigues and Pooja Vastrakar have been match for choice. Rodrigues missed the latest tour of Bangladesh with a again niggle, whereas the character and standing of Vastrakar’s damage weren’t clear when the BCCI introduced the squad.
