ICC Women World Cup 2022: Jhulan Goswami says India will come back strongly after loss vs England

India were thrashed by the England bowling attack for a total of 134 runs. The defending champions chased the target in just 31.2 overs with 4 wickets to spare.

Skipper Mithali Raj (left) and Jhulan Goswami.(Source: Twitter)

India played poor cricket in their fourth match of ICC Women's World Cup, bundled out for 134 by struggling defending champions England while batting firsrt.

Heather Knight and Co managed to achieve the target in 31.2 overs with four wickets to spare in a league stage on Wednesday.

This was England's first win after three consecutive losses that threw their title defence into disarray.

Captain Mithali Raj and senior pro Jhulan Goswami spoke at length on the loss.

"We definitely didn't have partnership at the top of order, despite getting what we wanted after losing the toss. The thought of putting 200+, the match could have gone either ways," Mithali said after the loss.

That's that from the #ENGvIND game.

England win by 4 wickets.

Scorecard - https://t.co/cpWXApZ2Wt #ENGvIND #CWC22 pic.twitter.com/rSlMxy8ec6 — BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) March 16, 2022

"Every game as a fielding unit we are doing well and we hope to continue to do that. Batting is a concern but we'll try to address that in the next match, we are playing a team that hasn't lost to anyone," she added about the clash against mighty Australia next. The view was echoed by Goswami in the post-math press conference.

"Honestly speaking, at this moment, yes our top order, the way we are thinking, they haven't fired but I am sure you will have to be positive about that, because they have done really well in the past," she said. "...The way we have been thinking, they have not batted, but I am very much hopeful they are going to come back hard in the next game," Goswami added.

"But definitely it is a learning process, every day we try to address certain issues, we will definitely solve these issues and come back strongly," the pace spearhead explained. Goswami also said that the team was disappointed at not being able to complete its share of 50 overs while batting. "Definitely, we had a plan to play 300 balls, but unfortunately we could not play the full 50 overs. Definitely, we had to pay a price for it. Our target was to reach 240 or 250 at par."

Goswami also reached 250 ODI wickets in the game and said she never thought of ths achievement when she started out in cricket.

India will play table-toppers Australia on March 19 at Auckland.

With PTI inputs