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Too much cricket no issue for Harmanpreet Kaur & Co

Harmanpreet Kaur, India's T20 captain, is not complaining though. She said the team is not fatigued playing continuous cricket.

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The Indian women's cricket team is faced with new challenges. The foremost of them is to cope up with playing continuous cricket for two months.

Following the three ODIs and five T20Is in South Africa in February, the Indian women are up against Australia for three ODIs and a minimum of four T20Is, and five if they enter the final of the tri-series this month. This will be followed by three ODIs in Nagpur in April against England.

Harmanpreet Kaur, India's T20 captain, is not complaining though. She said the team is not fatigued playing continuous cricket.

"No, no, not all," Kaur was quick to say when asked if the team is tired and hence the results not going in their favour. "We are all enjoying the back-to back games. We were expecting this from BCCI. This is a learning experience for us, earlier we used to not get back-to-back games and suddenly after 6-8 months, we used to get matches. It became difficult to play roles as an individual as we get to play international cricket after a long time.

Now with back-to-back games, we get the momentum. We will learn as to how to make a comeback from the things which we don't do well. The team is not fatigued. Everybody is fit. Playing back-to-back matches is quite an experience," she said on Saturday after the team's two-hour practice session.

The Indian women will do well to get used to playing continuously as this is how it is going to be moving forward. The senior women may also not have a breathing space and some of them will also figure in India 'A' unless the second string has a good set of players.

When there was wide gap between international assignments, they complained about not having enough matches. Now, with too many matches in two months, they aren't complaining, though, but are getting used to playing continuously and giving their best shot.

The results, though, are not coming in their favour. Playing at home for the first time as World Cup finalists, the Indian women have lost all four internationals so far.

Asked if they are heavily dependent on spinners to win them matches, Kaur said: "It is not like we are dependent on the spinners. We have good spinners and they have done well in the past. And tomorrow (Sunday), we will plan our bowling as per the wicket. The wickets in South Africa were different and we could use three medium-pacers. This is a batting wicket and the bowlers are not even getting slight turn."

Kaur also said that the T20 format did not allow anyone to comeback after losing the momentum. "If you compare our (Thursday's T20, losing to Australia by six wickets) performance with the ODIs, we have improved a lot. There are still a lot of areas where we need to improve and are working on that. This is a shorter format where we can't decide which team will win and which will lose because it depends on that moment how we play.

"In the last game, there were so many moments where we were playing good cricket and in the short format, once rhythm is broken, it is hard to get it back. We are working on that area that when we get the momentum, we will continue and not break it."

India will play back-to-back T20Is, following their Sunday's clash against England with the second leg game against Australia on Monday.

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