Have seen that final ball not less than 1000 instances: Harmanpreet on life after World Cup

It’s a second that modified her life and the trajectory of Indian girls’s cricket for the foreseeable future. Little surprise then that Harmanpreet Kaur has seen her full-length diving catch of Nadine de Klerk within the World Cup closing not less than a 1000 instances up to now.

The catch by the skipper sealed India’s 52-run victory over the South African Women’s group for a historic first ever World Cup trophy.

“My life has completely changed. I have seen that last ball at least a thousand times, not only me, our team had been waiting for this moment for many years. I feel like watching that moment again and again,” the 36-year-old history-maker mentioned in an unique interview throughout her go to to the PTI headquarters in New Delhi.

“I really don’t know what I was thinking when I was taking that last catch. It is hard to express in words, it means the world to me because I always dreamt of winning the World Cup, and finally we did that and now it has been two weeks and it is very special feeling and hard to express,” she added.

Harmanpreet deserved an extended break after the World Cup victory, which was a results of years of laborious work. However, her off-the-field schedule has been busier than ever and he or she has not even obtained the time to return residence since she took that profitable catch within the closing.

The marketing campaign itself had its justifiable share of ups and downs and maybe the largest problem was the three consecutive losses that the group endured within the league stage, triggering a social media backlash that bordered on misogyny.

Harmanpreet made mild of the offensive on-line feedback, saying the tough criticism confirmed that higher was anticipated from her group.

“We took all the criticism in a positive way. People were criticising us because we could have played well. Fans were expecting a lot from us. We had a meeting… our head coach (Amol Muzumdar) talked to us… he said, ‘we are better than this’,” she recollected.

“If people were trolling us, it was because we were not playing cricket at the level we could, we could do better than this….We had another meeting after reaching Mumbai that now we only have one way that is to win all the matches “It was to not show the critics mistaken however we have been additionally feeling that we weren’t taking part in our greatest cricket, and our greatest was but to return,” she added.