WPL 2023: ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Finals: The war of words has begun before the inaugural Women Premier League. UP Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy has taken a sly dig at Mumbai Indians’ Harmanpreet Kaur. While Harmanpreet called her match-defining run-out “unlucky”, the Australian wicketkeeper-batter slammed her saying, it was lack of effort. The run-out resulted in Australia knocking India out of ICC Women’s T20 World Cup with a 5-run win in the Women’s T20 WC Semifinals. Follow Women’s Premier League 2023 Live Updates with InsideSport.IN.
“Harmanpreet can say all she likes that it was so unlucky.” 👀
For all young cricketers wanting to learn the value of staying alert on the field, listen to Alyssa Healy.
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— ABC SPORT (@abcsport) February 26, 2023
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WPL 2023: Alyssa Healy takes DIG at Harmanpreet Kaur ahead of Women Premier League, slams lack of effort resulting in run out, Check OUT
Healy said it wasn’t luck but lack of “genuine effort” by Harmanpreet Kaur that resulted in a bizarre run-out during the women’s T20 World Cup semifinal. India had nearly pulled off a win against Australia with Harmanpreet slamming 52 off 34 balls. But her run-out changed the complexion of the match.
“Just a bizarre play and I mean Harmanpreet can say all she likes that it was so unlucky. But I mean at the end of the day she cruised back and probably could have been passed the crease, an extra two metres if she genuinely put in the effort. So we’ll take it,” Alyssa Healy said in a video posted by ABC Sport on Twitter on Sunday.
What exactly happened? – While trying to complete a second run in the 15th over, Harmanpreet’s bat got stuck on the ground. She did try to leap forward but Healy was quick to take the bails off with the Indian captain out of the crease.
After the game, a tearful Harmanpreet had said “can’t feel unluckier than this.” But Healy feels otherwise.
WPL 2023: Alyssa Healy takes DIG at Harmanpreet Kaur ahead of Women Premier League, slams lack of effort resulting in run out, Check OUT
“You could say you’re unlucky all your life, but it’s generally about effort and energy at that moment in time. And I know that’s something we speak about in the field in particular is putting in that effort and putting in that energy. That comes back to running between wickets as well. It’s doing those little basics better than the opposition and that’s how you win big tournaments. And I feel like we’ve been doing that quite well,” added Healy.
Recollecting the chain of events, the wicketkeeper batter said she was generally not the one to remove the stumps in such a situation.“It’s really funny, actually. Belinda Clark messaged me after and said, like, well done for taking the bails. And it’s quite an interesting one because I actually don’t take the bails a lot in that sort of scenario.
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However, it’s not just Alyssa Healy, former England captain Nasser Hussain also called it a schoolgirl error. Harmanpreet slammed Hussain’s comment.
“He (Nasser) said that? Okay. I don’t know. That is a way of thinking. I don’t know. But sometimes it happens. I have seen many times in cricket when batters are taking a single like that and sometimes bat is stuck there. But obviously, I will take it as we were unlucky today. We were unlucky but I don’t think it was a mistake of a schoolgirl. We are mature enough and playing international cricket. Whatever he said, that’s his way of thinking,” she said.
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