WE CAN PERFORM BETTER: JHULAN

London, July 24: India exceeded expectations by reaching the ICC Women’s World Cup final but there is still scope for performing better as a team, feels veteran pacer Jhulan Goswami. Under the heartbreak of a final defeat at the hands of England, Goswami was able to reflect on one of the biggest moments in India women’s cricket history.

India were the only team to beat England enroute to their third title in three attempts at home, but while the individual performances were there, the task is now to follow it up with more and more team displays heading into future tournaments.

“The important thing is that nobody from the first day thought we would be a finalist. We performed and started to believe in ourselves after that match, and in each given day everybody tried to contribute, as a team we believed that if we did well we could do it our way,” said Goswami.

“We tried to contribute from all of us from the beginning. At this moment we must enjoy this journey, the whole team must enjoy the way we played, unfortunately this one was not to go our way.

“In the games we’ve had people perform, individually, but when it comes to a group there are things that we can work on,” said the all-time leading wicket-taker in ODIs with 195 scalps. Her Lord’s outing also took her to tally to 36 wickets in World Cups – the joint third highest – while her three for 23 threatened to take the game away from the host and favourite England when they made 228 for eight. — PTI