As heart rates stabilise east of GMT, I’m off for a soothing vada pav at Manchester Chit n Chaat (as kindly recommended by Krishnamoorthy’s cousin). Thank you all for your company and your emails – sorry I didn’t get around to them all.
There will be a new winner of the Women’s World Cup on Sunday. See you there.
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Harmanpreet Kaur, with the face of a woman dazed by events.
“I’m very proud, feeling great, we have been working hard for so many days, cant believe it.
We [her and coach] believe every player can win any match at any time in any situation. We made a few mistakes in this tournament and we have been learning from our mistakes.
We realised that we didn’t execute very well, we were late by two or three overs, that really cost us. We realised that we had to recalculate as once behind the rate it is hard to come back in the last five overs. You have to be very calculating.
Jemimah hasn’t batted at three too often, she always wants to do really well for the team and wants to take responsibility. Today was a very special knock from her, both of us had a very good time on the pitch, we were complementing each other and she was doing all the calculating on the pitch. I was so amazed to see how she was thinking and pushing me so we should give a lot of thanks to her.
We have one more game to go, we all played well, already we have started speaking about our next game, that’s how focussed we are. We are playing in home conditions which is really special for us, we want to do it for our fans and our families - one more game to go and we will do our best.
We are not playing alone the crowd are always with us, they’ve been amazing, even when we lost we kept getting messages. Our country is with us.
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