“(If) we are looking at competing with the best — the Australia or England side — we are looking at 270-plus. But having said that, I think this was our third game after a long gap and we are one of those countries that have started cricket quite late whereas the other teams already played a couple of series,” said India skipper Mithali Raj after Friday’s match during which she became the first Indian player to get to 10,000 runs.
“We definitely need to have batters playing the last 10 overs because obviously the sort of game that a batter has and can improve it to the optimum, the lower order or tailender may not, so it is important that we have the batters playing the last 10 overs,” she added while speaking to the media.
The 38-year-old veteran of 212 ODIs said she is looking for game-time for her players ahead of next year’s World Cup.
“We need to have some game-time but we’re also trying to work on…