Smriti Mandhana’s knack of taking accountability whereas being constant makes her the perfect candidate to interchange the veteran Mithali Raj on the helm, former captain Shantha Rangaswamy stated on Sunday after India’s elimination within the group stage within the ODI Women’s World Cup.
The Mithali Raj-led facet, who have been the final version’s runners-up, misplaced to South Africa by three wickets to make a untimely exit from the showpiece, capping an inconsistent present.
Even as she has stopped wanting calling it quits, Mithali’s 23-year-old International profession could have come to an finish with the defeat.
Talking to PTI, Shantha stated her selection for the following captain is Smriti and never the India star batter Harmanpreet Kaur.
“Mithali can go on if she desires to… Smriti ought to lead. Harman is a confirmed match-winner and star participant however captaincy wants taking accountability and enjoying persistently nicely. Additional accountability of captaincy could weigh Harman down,” Shantha stated.
“It will put an additional burden on Harman. Smriti can handle that better. Her temperament is suited to captaincy,” the BCCI Apex Council member added.
India had began out as favourites and had an ideal build-up to the event enjoying collection towards South Africa, England, Australia and hosts New Zealand simply earlier than the event.
Having began off with a win over Pakistan, India crashed to a 62-run defeat to New Zealand after being bowled out for 198.
In the following match, they bounced again to defeat the West Indies by 155 runs however solely to endure two defeats on the trot, towards defending champions England and Australia.
Against England, they folded for simply 134 to endure a four-wicket defeat.
“The expectations have been excessive since they completed runners-up final time. The outcomes got here to those that performed persistently all through. India particularly within the England recreation, they have been skittled out. Luck performed its half too.
“England performed badly initially after which bounced again to qualify. Overall, India performed nicely, there’s nothing to be ashamed of,” she said.
A no-ball by Deepti Sharma when she had the wicket of well-set Mignon du Preez also turned the tide against India in the final over, as South Africa clinched a last-ball thriller.
“The no-ball today also went against them, luck again played a part. But they were inconsistent. If you look at the last one year, Smriti and Mithali have been consistent,” she signed off.
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