Cut the noise: Yuvi’s advice to women’s World Cup team

Playing the World Cup at home brings about a different level of pressure. Given the passion for the sports in the country, no cricket team faces a bigger challenge than India. This season, all eyes will be on the India women’s cricket team when it starts its campaign in the ICC Women’s ODI ‘World Cup.

- Sanjjeev K Samyal

At an ICC event to mark the 50-day countdown, former India star all-rounder Yuvraj Singh said the key is to find a way to handle the expectations. He gave them the example of how his team achieved success on home soil in 2011. With captain Harmanpreet Kaur, in attendance along with star batters Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues, the player of the 2011 tournament, said “cut the noise” ‘was the mantra set by the team’s senior batter Sachin Tendulkar and coach Gary Kirsten.

“[ will give you an example of what we felt at that time. Until then, no country had won the World Cup at home and it had been 28 years since we won a ‘World Cup (1983). I remember we tied the game against England and we lost to South Africa (in the league stage), from a winning position. We got a lot of backlash.