Former England captain Nasser Hussain hailed India batter Shafali Varma’s triumphant return to India’s ICC Women’s World Cup winning team and her all-round show in the final, pointing it how the “gamble” of a selection turned out to be good for Team India.
Shafali lived up to her words spoken in the presser before the semifinals against Australia, delivering the “good” that the “god” had sent her for in the final of the ICC Women’s World Cup against Proteas, first, a record-breaking knock of 87, the highest by an Indian women’s player in a WC final and then following it with a tight spell of 2/36, including wicket of experienced all-rounder Marizanne Kapp.
Speaking as quoted by Sky Sports, Naseer pointed out to Shafali’s rise in T20Is as a hard-hitting batter with a “care-free” attitude at the age of 15, but how problems with short ball landed her in trouble in ODIs, paving the way for a rock-solid Pratika, who has 1110 runs in 23 innings with two centuries and seven fifties so far.
“She batted brilliantly, and it was a bit of genius to bowl her as well. I don’t know where that came from, but they bowled her and she was outstanding. A really good selection and really good for her to come back into it and play the way that she has,” he concluded.
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