Harmanpreet Kaur has done what no one else can claim to have done, or may do for a while — be the captain of an Asian Games-winning cricket team twice in a row. And she has the medals to prove it.
We can’t dwell on this win a lot, we have to see what we can do for the next 1.5-2 years to get in the best place to win an Olympic medal,” she declared. Because the cricketers before us did not have this, “We are lucky to have done it twice now. Because when we win a trophy, it feels good but it goes to the BCCI office, now we can also frame two medals back home.
That the team’s gold was also the first for India at the ongoing Games only made it extra special. Shreyanka Patil, returning from an ankle injury that kept her out of the Asia Cup, was elated to be back playing. “I feel everyone played really good cricket. We have to keep playing good cricket against better opposition.
Having said that, we all have to look forward and work on ourselves and keep getting better.
Firm favourite to defend its title at the Korogi Athletics Park even before the team landed in Tokyo, and coming after the high of clinching the Asia Cup, the gulf between the Women in Blue and the rest was far too wide. This is something we will have with us forever… this is ours,” Harmanpreet said on Tuesday.