Sanjay hadke

Om Sai Cricket Academy: Set to enter the upcoming U19 Women’s T20 World Cup in Malaysia as defending champions, there will be high hopes from India to replicate their title-winning performance from the inaugural edition in 2023.

Left-handed wicketkeeper-batter Bhavika Ahire aims to excel in the U19 World Cup, given that India will be playing in conditions where they won the inaugural U19 Women’s Asia Cup last month. “I am very excited about representing India in a World Cup for the first time. The coaches have been good, all of them back us and give lots of confidence before every match.

“We will take a lot of confidence from the Asia Cup win from that because our team bonding was good there, and everyone was backing each other. So, with that confidence, we will now go for winning the World Cup.