India Women Have Done Well At Home, West Indies Series Important To Get Confidence Back: Harmanpreet Kaur

Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur on Saturday backed the Indian women's team to regain confidence in home conditions during the three-match T20I series against the West Indies, following a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign and a 0-3 defeat in Australia. Having failed to progress beyond the group stage in the T20 World Cup in October, India bounced back with a 2-1 ODI series win against New Zealand at home. However, their 0-3 loss in the ODI series in Australia has once again put the team under significant pressure.

"After the World Cup, we played against New Zealand, we did really well in the home conditions and Australia tour result was not something which we were expecting but lot of learnings for us," Kaur told the media here before India's training session ahead of the first T20I against the West Indies.

"In India, whenever we (have) played, we (have) played good cricket, the only (disappointing) thing was (the) World Cup and then the Australia tour which didn't go according to our plans but apart from that, if I see in this year, we played really good cricket, we won lot of matches in home conditions." "These things happen and as a team, it's very important for us to stay together and think about all the positives we have done in the past," she said.

Kaur said India's bowling attack was relatively young in Australia and has learned valuable lessons from the experience. "Our bowling attack was quite young (in Australia) and for them, it was a great learning playing against such a good team where (they could) see how good players play and how they can improve," she said.

Kaur, however, refused to comment on the exclusion of Shafali Verma for T20Is against West Indies despite the right-handed batter being second highest