NEW DELHI: The Indian women's cricket team is certainly in a positive mood with few members of the squad exhibiting their signature dancing moves ahead of the ICC World T20 to be held in West Indies from November 9 to 24.
The official twitter handle of ICC World T20 posted few pictures on Saturday where Indian skipper
Harmanpreet Kaur,
Smriti Mandhana,
Veda Krishnamurthy and young
Jemimah Rodrigues were seen having a gala time while showing their dancing skills prior to the start of the big tournament.
The Indian team will commence their campaign with the group lung opener against New Zealand at Guyana on November 9.
India are placed in Group B along with Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Ireland in the 10-team event.
Explosive opener Mandhana, young Mumbai batswoman Rodrigues were quite optimistic prior to their departure and hoped that the team, coached by
Ramesh Powar, will do well in the event in the Caribbean.
"We tried to put them under pressure during power play and when chasing. The good thing is the youngsters - they are fearless. I don't feel them succumbing under pressure," Powar had said at the pre-departure press conference.
It was the failure to handle pressure that cost India dear in the July 2017 final of the ICC Women's ODI World Cup against hosts England when they collapsed to 219 all out when seemingly all set to reach the target of 229 at 191 for 3.
The squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Mithali Raj, Jemimah Rodrigues, Veda Krishnamurthy, Deepti Sharma, Tanya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav, Anuja Patil,
Ekta Bisht, D Hemalatha, Mansi Joshi, Pooja Vastrakar and Arundhati Reddy.