NAVI MUMBAI: It is not straightforward to impress the hard-nosed Aussies, particularly when you find yourself taking part in towards them for the primary time, however 19-year-old quick bowler Titas Sadhu managed to just do that, after she completed with terrific figures of 4-0-17-4, dismissing Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ash Gardner and Annabel Sutherland to star within the Indian ladies’s group’s nine-wicket hammering of Australia within the first T20I on the DY Patil Stadium on Friday evening.
“They (India) most likely had the very best of the circumstances with the brand new ball, the wicket was providing slightly bit however in saying that, they earned that proper, they bowled impeccable lengths and made it actually difficult for us. So full credit score to them and full credit score to (Sadhu) for coming in and taking 4 wickets towards our facet, I assumed she bowled extremely properly,” Australian captain Alyssa Healy stated within the post-match press convention.
Healy admitted that Australia weren’t at their greatest within the opening Girls’s T20I towards India on Friday, January 6 on the Dr DY Patil Sports activities Academy in Navi Mumbai.
Healy identified that her new-ball bowlers “let the group down,” whereas permitting India’s openers Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Varma to blaze away to a 137-run opening stand in simply 92 balls.

“We left loads on the market with a bat – we had a platform to get ourselves up over 170, and 140 is just not sufficient on that wicket, particularly with the dew coming in. After which we simply let ourselves down slightly bit with the brand new ball – that is what occurs in T20 cricket, once you’re not fairly on towards good sides, they make you pay, and so we’ll simply have to repair it for the subsequent two video games,” Healy said.
Like they did within the Checks, Australia will now be itching to make a comeback once they face India within the second T20I on Sunday.