00:00It's everyone individually who needs to go back. There is hardly any time.
00:05This game, we are right at the start of the season. International tournaments, as you mentioned, is one thing.
00:11But we are right at the start of the season where we will be playing in New Zealand for those three one-day internationals.
00:16Because those three games are important for qualification for the next World Cup, for the 50 overall.
00:23Okay, fair enough. India is a host. But you still want to be there as a winner.
00:30How do you play the one-day format? How do you prepare for a T20 format?
00:35This game is not going to give you another opportunity. We have always aspired to have the crowd behind us, have people come into the stadiums.
00:44There has been a lot of effort from the administrators, world over bodies who probably tried to get the women's game to this platform.
00:54Not only an individual tournament, but also people coming to the stadiums.
00:59I mean, in the UAE, when was it that we thought that we will have an India-Pakistan women's cricket match with a stadium 80% full or a Sharjah stadium 99% full for an India-Australia game?
01:14So, if the game has developed, I guess the onus is also on the individual players to up their standard and skill level.
01:23Because if you are short of that standard and skill level, it will be found out very quickly.
01:28And sadly, it's happened on few more occasions than less occasions for us.
01:35If we boast of having one of the best Indian team, the world champion Indian men's cricket team, then it's a great pride for us as a cricketer, as an Indian national.
01:48Which we hold with great confidence that we belong to a land where our team is the world cup winning team, is the international champion.
02:04We are world cup winners.
02:06So, if one team is a world cup winner, the other team also aspires to be that.
02:12But coming out from just words to coming into actions, there is a whole different ball game.
02:19And it's not just a wish and a will. Everybody aspires to become a world cup winner.
02:24But only one can take home that trophy, one team.
02:26Rest only try harder the next time.
02:29So, I guess from words to actions, it needs to translate into that.
02:35It has helped. It has come about in leaps and bounds.
02:39But there is still a huge way to travel.
02:42And the slower we are in getting there, the further pegged back we will become.
02:48Because other teams are also in that same race.
02:50So, we need to speed up if we want to remain in the race.
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