'We made same mistakes': India captain pulls no punches after ODI series loss to Australia

India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur admitted connected Friday that batting fto the squad down successful the archetypal 2 ODIs against Australia, starring to back-to-back defeats successful their archetypal 50-over bid since winning the World Cup past November.India had earlier won the T20I bid 2-1 but person present mislaid the archetypal 2 ODIs, with 1 lucifer near connected Sunday. The teams are contesting an all-format bid that volition besides see a one-off Test.In the 2nd ODI, India chose to bat and scored 251/9, with half-centuries from Harmanpreet (54) and Pratika Rawal (52). However, dropped catches wounded their chances arsenic Australia chased down the people by 5 wickets with 13.5 overs remaining."Well, decidedly we didn't bat good contiguous due to the fact that arsenic a radical we decided that let's bat archetypal and enactment a 300-plus full connected the committee due to the fact that today’s transportation was acold amended than the erstwhile one," Harmanpreet told the broadcaster aft the match."But unfortunately, we again made the aforesaid mistakes and we kept losing wickets successful between, and that's wherefore we were abbreviated of tons of runs.""No substance whether we bat archetypal oregon second, we person to bat truly good due to the fact that whenever we bat well, we're ever successful a bully situation.

In the past 2 games we didn't bat well, and that truly outgo us. It's lone astir batting good and batting deep, and hopefully successful the adjacent crippled we'll bash that," Harmanpreet added.Australia skipper Alyssa Healy, who volition play her last lucifer connected Sunday earlier retiring, said she was satisfied with the result."I'm truly pumped with that result. Like I said the different night, I was ecstatic with the mode that we went astir that pursuit and to bash it again contiguous adjacent better, I thought, was outstanding.

Pretty pleased with that," Healy said."It was 1 of those weird ones wherever I felt similar they were good abbreviated of a par score, but astatine the aforesaid clip it was frustrating for us. I felt similar we could person got them retired a small spot earlier. But to support them to 250 connected that benignant of wicket was conscionable an outstanding effort from our group."Healy described Georgia Voll (101) and Phoebe Litchfield (80), some 22, arsenic cardinal players for the future."Sometimes I've conscionable got to get retired of the mode and fto the young kids bash their thing.

That's the future, right? That's the aboriginal of this Australian cricket squad moving guardant successful that apical order," said Healy."To spot them spell astir their concern tonight, particularly Phoebe, the mode she took it connected aboriginal and got herself acceptable and gave america a existent opportunity, was outstanding. Kudos to them both," she added.Voll credited Litchfield for easing the unit during their 119-run concern for the 2nd wicket."Phoebe was outstanding astatine the different end, made my occupation ace easy. (I was) conscionable retired determination having a batch of amusive batting with her."Any accidental you get to bat for Australia, you effort and instrumentality it with some hands. So I'm conscionable benignant of trying to instrumentality immoderate accidental I tin get and bash the champion occupation I can," Voll added.