Just One Chance

Lockdown Diaries

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So I might be a little late in updating this week because I'm currently out of station, but I'll try my best to update on time.

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So Siya has finally made her international debut.

Wonder how her next few matches will go?

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Soon after the start of the new year, India was playing a T20I Tri-Series with England and Australia, with the later playing hosts this time.

The T20 World was scheduled in the following month with Australia as the hosts and the Women in Blue were determined to perform well in the tournament.

Siya made her T20I debut in the first match against England, after which she plays the last match against Australia.

The Indians play both the teams twice, where they win one match but lose the other.

Siya isn't named in the playing eleven for the finals, but she comes out on the field as a substitute fielder.

Australia wins the final comfortably, before the teams start gearing up for the big event.

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A few days after the Tri-Series Finals, the warm up matches for the World Cup start, where India was supposed to face Pakistan first, but the match gets abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Luckily India gets to play their second warm up match against West Indies, which they win, before getting ready to face the mighty Australians in their first match.

Siya plays lower down the batting order, as India beat Australia in the first match after some brilliant performances by Deepti Sharma and Poonam Yadav.

The next match where Siya plays is against New Zealand, where her power hitting gives India a good total to defend.

India remains undefeated in the group stage and faces England in the semi-final.

The match had to be shortened due to rain, so Harman decides to send Siya as an opener with Shafali to give the team a good boost at the start of the innings.

India won the match comfortably after the fireworks display, courtesy of the two openers who had both stayed not out till the end.

The finals is against Australia who had qualified after beating South Africa in the second semi-final match.

Unfortunately, India has a terrible day on the field with their bowlers being smashed around for boundaries in the first innings, while the second innings consists of a complete collapse of their batting order.

Siya was in tears after her team loses the final by a huge margin, after performing so well throughout the tournament.

The team stays together in the captain's room, as they console each other after yet another heart breaking loss.

Shafali and Siya were the most affected, since this was their first major ICC tournament and neither of them had performed well in the most important match when their team was counting on them.