Delhi Capitals’ skipper Meg Lanning on Tuesday hoped explosive India opener Shafali Varma will carry her recent rich vein of form in domestic cricket into the third season of the Women’s Premier League starting on Friday. Shafali, who was dropped from the Indian team for the Away Tour to Australia in November 2024, Made Excellent Outings for Haryana in Domestic Matches Recent to Signal Her Return to Return to Return to Return to Return to Return to Return to Returna. She looks like she’s in really good touch and enjoying herself and having fun too, which I think is really important. For me, just watching her play with freedom, express herself, (and) when she does that, that plays a really important role for our team, âLanning Said during the pre-teamnaments meet of the Capitals.
Shafali was the top run-goldtter in the Senior Women’s One Day Trophy, Scoring 527 Runs at an average of 75.29 while in the Senior Women’s One Day Challenger Trophy the Right-Made 414 Runs 414 Runs of an average.
On bot the evcasions, she made runs at a strike-also close to 150.
She did a very similar thing a few days ago in our practice game. She often puts on a very entertaining show and i’ve got the best seat in the house. I Always Enjoy Batting with Her. We get on really well and hopefully this season can continue on from where we have been the first two, âLanning added.
Like Her Opening Partner, Lanning also Coming to the WPL 2025 without any substantiial match-time experience having retired from International Cricket Last Year.
So, how have she managed to keep in touch with the game? “I’ve been playing some games for Victoria in the WNCL (Women’s National Cricket League). I think playing matches is important.
There’s Nothing Quite like being out in the middle and being in a good rhythm with that.
“So, I feel like those games are great for me in that responge. I feel like i’m in a good spot with my game. ” Lanning Said Her Past Experiences of Playing in India will help her in the wpl.
âI Always Enjoy Playing and Batting over here in India. I’ve had some success in the past. And yeah, so far with the couple of days I’ve been here, it’s been nice to just get used to the conditions and just be really clear on what my plan is and how I was plan is and how I was about it. ” In Fact, All the Teams and Players will have to do Quick Acc climatiation, the wpl will be played across the across four venues – Vadodara, Bengaluru, Lucknow and Mumbai – for the fir the fir.
Lanning relaishes the challenge. âWe were really lucky with the practice facility we had in pune (DURING DC Training Camp). We practiced on black soil wickets and red soil wickets. So, we’re trying to cover all the bases without really knowledge Necessarily what we going to find to find.
“The stadium here in the kotbi (Vadodara), it’s a fantastic wicket. Obvious, the Indian women played a series here recently that was really high screen. So, I expect the wickets to be fantastic from that angle. ” The Former Australian Captain Said Players will have to remain flexible with their approach considering they will be played in new venues.
“As always with cricket, it’s only when the players step out
“You’ve got to stay flexible, Stay Fluid with your thought and react to what’s in front of you. But it’s really exciting to have these new venues on the calendar, âShe added.
On the flip side, the capitals will miss playing in front of home crowd this season, but lanning is not overly perturbed.
“There’s no doubt we love playing in front of our home fans in Delhi. It’s unfortunate that we don’t get to do that this year. But i think anywahere that we’ve gone so far with wpl, there’s been excellent crawds and a great atmosphere.
“We just try and embrace that and enjoy that and really just so take of take that in our stride. IT (Not Playing at Home Venue) Hasn’T been something that we’ve talked about too much at all) or that will worry us. I think we’re happy to play wherever we need to, “She said.
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