Women's Asia Cup: World Cup win is also not very far now, says Deepti Sharma

A World Cup win is not very far now Indias star allrounder Deepti Sharma declared after the teams recordextending seventh Womens Asia Cup title triumph here on SaturdayBarring an aberration against Pakistan that came courtesy some bizarre planning and experiments the Harmanpreet Kaurled side ruled the roost in the continental T20 tournamentThe final against Sri Lanka turned out to be a onesided affair as they restricted the islanders to a belowpar 659 en route to an eightwicket victoryAs a team we did well right from the first match till the final Obviously it gives you confidence when you win the final Deepti who was adjudged Player of the Tournament said at the postmatch media interactionThe 25yearold offspinning allrounder topped the tally with 13 wickets from eight matches at an average of 769 She opened the bowling in the final and returned with tidy figures of 4070 setting set the toneAs a team we have done well and backed each other which is good Throughout the tournament we wanted to enjoy each and every gameIndia have now won all the editions of the Asia Cup barring the last time in 2018 when they lost to BangladeshAlso Read Sourav Ganguly set to become Cricket Association of Bengal president againThe Women in Blue however are yet to taste success at the world levelThey have lost the ODI World Cup finals twice 2005 and 2017 while in the last edition of the T20I World Cup in 2020 India finished runnersup to AustraliaBut bolstered by the Asia Cup win Deepti said a World Cup win is not far now The next edition of the T20 World Cup in South Africa is just four months awayIf we work like this as a bowling and batting unit the World Cup is also not very far This will be the mindset whenever we next play a final Definitely this Asia Cup triumph will help a lot the winning moment gives you confidence for the upcoming series Deepti addedOur focus was always to do well rather than just winning and it was about taking one game at a time she said about their approach in the Asia CupAs a bowling unit we planned to back our strengths and focus on our skills We bowled in partnerships that put them under pressure and they threw their wickets awayThey Sri Lanka did well in the semis and we didnt take them lightly But thats the way the sport is one team wins and another losses They have done well throughout the tournament Maybe it was not their day today she concludedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever