Harmanpreet Kaur recovers from COVID-19, urges people to be 'extra careful'
Cricket | April 16, 2021 16:32 ISTHarmanpreet had tested positive and made it public on March 30. After more than two weeks, her RT-PCR report has come negative.
Harmanpreet had tested positive and made it public on March 30. After more than two weeks, her RT-PCR report has come negative.
Kaur, who did not play in the T20 series against South Africa in Lucknow after injuring herself in the fifth ODI on March 17, got herself tested on Monday after developing mild fever.
India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur has been ruled out of the opening women's T20 International of the three-match series against South Africa here due to an injury, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana said on Friday.
Harmanpreet suffered a hip-flexor injury while batting in the fifth ODI against the same opponents on Wednesday.
The matches were due to take place on January 22 in Canberra, January 25 in Melbourne and January 28 in Hobart.
Harmanpreet indicated that her injury, sustained while fielding first, impacted her batting.
Defending 147, Supernovas restricted Trailblazers to 144 for five to enter their third successive final of the competition.
Harmanpreet also said that her team failed to capitalise during their innings in the last five overs, thus putting up a below par target.
Defending champions Supernovas, led by Harmanpreet, take on Mithali Raj's Velocity in the opening match in a repeat of last year's final, eyeing a third title on the trot.
The four-match tournament will have three teams -- defending champions Supernovas, last year's runners-up Velocity and Trailblazers -- competing against each other once before the summit clash on November 9.
The Women's T20 Challenger games will take place during the playoffs of the IPL in the UAE.
During the course of her 115-ball innings, she scored an unbeaten 171 which included 20 boundaries and seven sixes.
Harmanpreet opened up on the controversy involving the axing of Mithali for the 2018 World T20 semifinal against England.
Kaur said it is more about fitness and not skills that separate them from Australia or England.
The occasion got the better of the Indian team once again as it lost the final by a whopping 85-run margin here on Sunday. Both Shantha and Diana took solace in the performance of 16-year-old opener Shafali Verma and the consistent showing from the bowlers while the star batters disappointed.
It was dominance at its best from Australia in front of a record 86174 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday
India, playing in their first Women's T20 World Cup Final, had no answer to Alyssa Healy (75) and Beth Mooney (78 not out) before folding to 99 all out at the hands of seamer Megan Schutt and spinner Jess Jonassen.
India dropped Alyssa Healy's catch in the first over and the Australian wicketkeeper-batswoman maid them pay with a breezy 39-ball 75 in the final.
Her alma mater principal Kamaleesh Sodhi, who spotted her and helped hone her talent at school before she graduated to the state team of Punjab, said special prayers were held to mark her 31st birthday on the day of the title clash.
Women's cricket in India gathered pace after the Indian Eves's performance in the 2017 World Cup in England but it was many years in the making.
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