Women's World Cup final: What changes did Harmanpreet Kaur make to India's Playing XI?

NEW DELHI: South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt won the flip and chose to vessel archetypal against India successful the last of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup astatine the DY Patil Sports Academy successful Navi Mumbai connected Sunday.

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The flip took spot astir 2 hours aboriginal than scheduled aft dense rainfall delayed the commencement of the match. However, nary overs were mislaid contempt the interruption. Both teams named unchanged XIs from their respective semifinal victories.Wolvaardt said the aboveground looked bully for chasing and expected aboriginal assistance for her seamers. “A spot of rainfall around, truthful it conscionable feels similar a bully time to pursuit aboriginal with a spot of question connected offer.

The aboveground looks beauteous good, and hopefully we tin get a spot of plaything aboriginal connected with the rainfall we’ve had implicit the past mates of hours. But yeah, looks similar a truly bully wicket overall,” she said.Acknowledging the value of the moment, Wolvaardt said her squad was excited for the challenge. “It’s a large time for us, but we’re conscionable truly excited astir the opportunity. It’s precise peculiar playing successful beforehand of a assemblage similar this, truthful we’ll conscionable look to bask each moment,” she added.

India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur said she excessively would person opted to vessel first, fixed the overcast conditions, but was assured astir mounting a beardown total. “We would've bowled archetypal arsenic well, fixed the upwind and conditions. But yeah, it’s an important game, and someway it feels similar we’re backmost successful rhythm. Hopefully, we tin bat freely and enactment up a beardown full connected the board,” she said.Harmanpreet noted that the transportation was somewhat sticky owed to the rainfall but expected it to settee quickly.

“The outfield is somewhat damp too, but I deliberation aft 5 oregon six overs it should settee down nicely. We’ll effort to bash the aforesaid things again — play with intent, enactment positive, and backmost our plans,” she said.Both India and South Africa are eyeing a maiden World Cup title. India clasp a flimsy edge, having reached the last doubly earlier (2005 and 2017), and volition beryllium buoyed by the location assemblage support. India person already played 3 matches astatine this venue, portion South Africa are featuring successful Navi Mumbai for the archetypal clip this tournament.Playing XIs:India: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Amanjot Kaur, Radha Yadav, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Renuka SinghSouth Africa: Laura Wolvaardt (capt), Tazmin Brits, Anneke Bosch, Sune Luus, Marizanne Kapp, Annerie Dercksen, Sinalo Jafta (wk), Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Ayabonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba