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India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur said her squad is focused lone connected cricket up of Sunday's Women's T20 World Cup clash against Pakistan, adding that discussions wrong the squad revolve solely astir the game.India and Pakistan volition conscionable successful a Group 1 fixture astatine Edgbaston, Birmingham. The lucifer comes against the backdrop of caller instances wherever Indian teams person not exchanged handshakes with Pakistan players. At past year's ODI World Cup, Harmanpreet and Pakistan skipper Fatima Sana did not shingle hands during the toss.Since the men's Asia Cup past year, players from some the men's and women's teams person not shaken hands with Pakistan players.
The attack adopted by Suryakumar Yadav's broadside astatine the Asia Cup was besides followed astatine the Women's World Cup, U19 World Cup, Rising Stars Asia Cup and Men's T20 World Cup.Speaking to reporters connected the eve of the match, Harmanpreet said the squad is concentrating lone connected the cricketing challenge."I deliberation we are present for cricket, and we lone speech astir cricket, but that we don't speech astir anything, and I don't adjacent speech astir thing but cricket.
Cricket has been our imagination from time one, and we lone sermon cricket and tomorrow's game, we are lone reasoning astir it. It's different crippled which we are going to play," Kaur said.The India skipper acknowledged that games against Pakistan bring added unit but said handling and enjoying that unit is portion of planetary cricket."Definitely, unit is going to beryllium there. Whenever we play against Pakistan, unit is going to beryllium there.
But astatine the aforesaid time, it's lone astir however we are going to bask that pressure. Because successful immoderate planetary game, unit is going to beryllium there. It's lone astir conscionable giving you 100% connected that crippled and enjoying each moment," she added.India participate the tourney aft ending their ICC rubric hold by winning the ODI World Cup past year. They volition present look to adhd a Women's T20 World Cup trophy to their cabinet.The Women successful Blue person reached the T20 World Cup semi-finals 5 times and person played 1 final, but are yet to triumph the tournament.
