India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana wouldn’t wish to miss the mouth-watering conflict towards Pakistan within the Women’s T20 World Cup opener on Sunday, and he or she dropped a giant trace about her intentions on the eve of the match by posting her pictures on social media in full cricketing gear.
The top-order batter posted 4 pictures on Twitter and captioned them, “Let’s go T20WorldCup2023”.
There has been hypothesis that the 26-year-old opener may miss India’s first recreation towards Pakistan on account of a left center finger damage she picked up whereas fielding in the course of the warm-up recreation towards Australia earlier th is week.
Lets Go💙💙 #T20WorldCup2023 pic.twitter.com/Ezahg1H503
— Smriti Mandhana (@mandhana_smriti) February 11, 2023
An International Cricket Council (ICC) supply had confirmed to PTI that Mandhana had suffered an damage within the observe recreation.
“We can’t say she is out of World Cup yet. But she could miss the Pakistan game,” the ICC supply had mentioned.
The left-handed Mandhana had batted at quantity three towards Australia as an alternative of her normal opening place. Mandhana had subsequently missed India’s second warm-up recreation towards Bangladesh on Wednesday.
However, on Saturday Mandhana posted pictures which confirmed her all pumped up with the bat in hand and able to put on the helmet, giving a touch that she is all equipped for the competition.
The Indian group is clubbed alongside England, Pakistan, West Indies and Ireland in Group B.
India come into the World CUp match having misplaced the latest tri-series remaining to South Africa. They additionally misplaced the warm-up recreation towards Australia earlier than beating Bangladesh.
