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The One Day World Cup: India's vice-captain Smriti Mandhana believes that thinking about the World Cup after a successful campaign will not help them win the next one and said that the Indian team has a lot of scope to improve as they prepare for the global T20 event scheduled for next year.

Mandhana played a prolific knock with the bat in the recently concluded fourth T20I against Sri Lanka in Trivandrum on Sunday after registering poor scores in the first three games. She scripted history by completing 10000 international runs on her way to a 48-ball 80, becoming the fastest female cricketer to reach the landmark and only the fourth overall after Charlotte Edwards, Mithali Raj, and Suzie Bates.

"In cricket, you have to start from zero. The scoreboard is always zero for zero. It's never what you've done in the last match or previous series as well. Internal expectations for me in all three formats are very different. Of course, T20 is slightly in a way where you can't be extremely hard on yourself after getting out because you're playing at a pace where there are days when it'll come off.   Read More...