Senior India player Smriti Mandhana called for the team to be left alone after its 85-run mauling by Australia.
“This is a time to introspect. Failure teaches you a lot more than success. The team needs to be left alone and think of how we can be better in the next few years,” Mandhana said after the match.
Mandhana believed India are a transformed team in the shortest format, and she attributed it to head coach WV Raman.
“T20 was never our best format, one-day was definitely the preferred format. Now we’re playing each format equally well. That is one thing the coach has helped us with and we’ve developed massively,” she said.
“The youngsters coming in have totally changed the set-up and the best part of the tournament was it was a complete team performance. That’s one thing Raman has done — developing us as a team not just one or two players. Today, it didn't work out but we've grown as a team, not just as one or two players.”