Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 20 (ANI): After a difficult yr, former England Ladies’s skipper Heather Knight expressed her delight at merely being a part of the World Cup and emphasised the significance of having fun with the expertise.
England pulled off an exhilarating four-run victory over India in Indore on Sunday, securing their place within the semi-finals of the ICC Ladies’s World Cup.
She revealed that specializing in happiness and embracing the second has helped her deliver out his finest in batting.
Knight misplaced the captaincy at the beginning of the yr following a disappointing Ashes marketing campaign in Australia and her 2025 sunk even additional in Could when she badly tore her hamstring in a T20I towards the West Indies that left her Ladies’s World Cup marketing campaign doubtful.
However months of onerous work and rehab has Knight feeling recent and the 34-year-old displayed her skills with the bat when scoring her third ODI century and main England to victory with a Participant of the Match efficiency towards India in Indore on Sunday that confirmed the facet’s place within the knockout levels of the World Cup.
It was simply rewards for Knight, who used her highly effective sweep to her benefit, including 15 fours and one six as England held on for a slim four-run triumph.
‘I’m actually happy. I’ve had fairly garbage yr, not going to lie earlier than this World Cup. I used to be actually eager to attempt to take advantage of it and attempt to get pleasure from simply being right here as a result of clearly it was fairly tight to make it right here. I’ve made an actual acutely aware effort to attempt to benefit from the journey and attempt to get pleasure from what I do and attempt to get the most effective out of myself in my batting by that enjoyment and simply being blissful to be right here,’ Knight stated after the match, as quoted by the ICC.
‘I feel generally you’re taking it as a right once you’re form of on the treadmill of worldwide cricket and once you do get injured, you form of have that little bit of time to form of mirror and realise how enjoyable it’s and the alternatives that you just do get and I used to be actually eager to attempt to take advantage of the alternatives throughout this World Cup and clearly attempt to contribute as a lot as I can to the staff being profitable. That was a reasonably terrible day (hurting her hamstring in Could), to be sincere. Once I clearly felt my hamstring rip off, that was not that enjoyable. So to be right here now and clearly to be over that harm and to be contributing to the staff being profitable and clearly within the semi-finals now within the World Cup is a cool place to be,’ she added, as per the ICC
The competition towards India was additionally further particular for Knight as she grew to become simply the third participant from England and eighth total to have made 300 worldwide appearances throughout all codecs in ladies’s cricket (ANI)
