Jemimah Rodrigues is completely disenchanted after India’s a semifinal exit from the Women’s T20 World Cup however the top-order batter desires to depend on the positives and sees her group dominating the sport within the foreseeable future. Indian ladies’s group has progressed by leaps and bounds in the previous few years, however a serious trophy has eluded the Women in Blue. They misplaced the ODI World Cup closing to England in 2017, the 2020 T20 World Cup closing to Australia and the 2022 CWG closing to Australia in Birmingham.

“I think this team has been showing a lot of promise, we are pushing and pushing and we know something big is coming. What is in our hands is to keep working harder and keep trusting.

“We know when it is our time, no one can cease this group. This group goes to dominate for ages,” Rodrigues told ICC digital after India lost the semifinal by five runs to Australia in Cape Town on Thursday.

Chasing a competitive 172-run target, India nearly pulled off a thrilling win riding on skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (52 off 34) and Jemimah Rodrigues’ (43 off 24) 41-ball 69-run fourth wicket stand before falling just short.

Hailing the performances of youngsters like wicket-keeper Richa Ghosh, Rodrigues said India will definitely upstage Australia in near future.

“The first one would be the rise of children like Richa. This Indian group is looking for a finisher and she or he may very well be the one, and she or he is definitely the one for us.

“This team shows a lot of promise. And if you go to see how the average age is, it’s around 24, so I imagine that we’ll be giving this Australian team competition a few years down the line,” she mentioned.

It was so close to but up to now for India on Thursday night time, and Rodrigues mentioned it would take a while to recover from the loss.

“Honestly its not sunk in still. Everyone was quiet in the dressing room. It will take us some time,” she mentioned.

“What we discussed was to have the right intent and cricket is a game that anything can happen. We are not really focused on the results, we are focused on the process but things didn’t go our way.

“Few unlucky run outs … but it surely teaches you that failure shouldn’t be failure, it is really a studying. We will take a number of studying from this and we promised we’re going to work exhausting.” Had it not been for Harmanpreet’s freaky run out, India could have ended on the other side of the result.

“We had been going properly. We had it underneath management. If you had seen them more often than not, we had been above them in each part. Just the final part we tousled.

“Harman’s dismissal was a very unfortunate one. I don’t know what to say. This is like a learning experience. And I promise you that every single girl is going to work very hard,” she mentioned.

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