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India women vs Sri Lanka women: Harmanpreet Kaur says last-minute arrangements being made to broadcast series

Speaking on India's worsening fielding standards, Harmanpreet said it is one area that the team is emphasis and it will be one of the things they need to improve upon in Sri Lanka series

India women vs Sri Lanka women: Harmanpreet Kaur says last-minute arrangements being made to broadcast series Source: Twitter

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur while speaking to a group of journalists in the press conference on Wednesday (June 22) said that BCCI is working towards broadcast of the series. Not to forget, All of India games, since making it to World Cup final in 2017, have got broadcast partially or fully. However, till date, there is no official broadcaster for coverage of India vs Sri Lanka series, where visitors will play 3 T20s and ODIs each. 

"I did hear about the broadcast for the series, but there's nothing official from the boards yet due to last-minute changes I think," said Harmanpreet to the reporters. India play the 1st T20 vs Sri Lanka on June 23. 

Fielding a concern for India

Speaking on India's worsening fielding standards, Harmanpreet said it is one area that the team is emphasis and it will be one of the things they need to improve upon in Sri Lank series. "As a team, there are quite a few areas we are currently working on to improve keeping in mind this particular series against Sri Lanka. While our core strength lies in our batting, we are giving extra efforts to improve our fielding skills," she said.

"All our top batters and bowlers are fit for this series and we all expect to give our very best in this series," said Harmanpreet in the pre-match press conference.

The three-game T20 series will be followed by as many ODIs, scheduled to be played at Pallekele on July 1, 4 and 7.

Teams (from):

India: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Simran Bahadur, Yastika Bhatia, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Richa Ghosh (WK), Sabbhineni Meghana, Meghna Singh, Poonam Yadav, Renuka Singh, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav.

Sri Lanka: Chamari Athapaththu (C), Nilakshi de Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Vishmi Gunaratne, Ama Kanchana, Hansima Karunaratne, Achini Kulasuriya, Sugandika Kumari, Harshitha Madavi, Hasini Perera, Udeshika Prabodhani, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Inoka Ranaweera, Sathya Sandeepani, Anushka Sanjeewani, Malsha Shehani, Tharika Sewwandi.

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