Deepti Sharma Aims to End Australia's Winning Streak, Focus on Lessons Learned

India Women are favored to end Australia Women's winning run at home "as early as possible," according to off-spinner Deepti Sharma. The Indian team has lost two of the current series' ODI matches and nine other in a row against the Australians.

Australia secured the three-match series last Saturday at the Wankhede Stadium with a narrow three-run victory, building an unbeatable 2-0 lead. India's last home victory over Australia came in Chennai in February of 2007.

"Look, there are rewards and penalties in sports. As a team, we have also become better at both hitting and bowling. Thus, on the eve of the meaningless third ODI on Monday, Deepti stated, "We'll try to break their winning streak as early as possible."

"There have been numerous advancements. The games we used to play against Australia used to never be that close. We can persevere through to the end, which is a plus, Deepti continued.

India will try to concentrate on the lessons learned from the second game in all departments. As a team, we bowled well. It worked well for the pacers and spinners to limit them.

Meanwhile, the batters performed admirably. Their inter-partnerships weren't too bad, according to Deepti.

In addition, Deepti commended Richa Ghosh (96 off 117 balls) and rookie Shreyanka Patil (1/43) for their enthusiastic efforts in the second ODI. "It's not simple to perform as well as Shreyanka did in your first match.

Speaking of Richa, Deepti said, "It was fun to watch her play fearless cricket."

Following her impressive five-for-38 spell, which was her second career fifer, Deepti led India's bowling attack. She attributed this to her prolonged net sessions. "I've increased my bowling sessions, trained a lot, and bowled with the new ball in different phases, in the middle of overs, and even at the end with the old ball."

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