Harmanpreet Kaur Is Left Unimpressed With Question Over Lack Of Coverage To Women's Cricket | WATCH

Women's Asia Cup 2024: Harmanpreet Kaur-led Team India look all set and ready for the ongoing edition of the Asian championship. The tournament will feature eight Asian nations with Nepal playing the tournament after 2016.  Sri Lanka are the hosts of the Women's Asia Cup and all the games of the tournament will be played in Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Dambulla. The tournament has already started with a game played between Nepal and UAE.

Harmanpreet Kaur Irritated by Questions On Women's Cricket

Ahead of the start of the tournament, all the captains of the Asian nations gathered for a captain's day photoshoot with the trophy followed by a press conference. Skippers of including  Harmanpreet Kaur, Nida Dar and others were all smiles at the pre tournament rituals. Harmanpreet Kar, while attending the press conference was questioned about the 'lack of coverage' that women's cricket gets. Kaur at first did not understand the question and asked the media personnel to repeat it. Once she got the crux of the question, she was utterly left unimpressed by it, but somehow managed to brush it aside with a laugh.

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The journalist who rubbed Kaur in a wrong way with his questions also went the distance and asked her about how poor umpiring impacts women's cricket coverage. 'Well's that's none of my business. You guys have to come and cover us', said a seemingly irritated Kaur.

Women's Asia Cup 2024: India Women vs Pakistan Women

Harmanpreet Kaur's India play Nida Dar's Pakistan in their opening Women's Asia Cup clash. The match will be played at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla. Just like the men's cricket team, India women and Pakistan women also play against each other either in the Asia Cup or in the ICC events.

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India Women vs Pakistan Women: A Look At The Squads

India Women Squad: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Uma Chetry(w), S Sajana, Pooja Vastrakar, Shreyanka Patil, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, Dayalan Hemalatha, Renuka Thakur Singh, Richa Ghosh, Asha Sobhana

Pakistan Women Squad: Sidra Ameen, Gull Feroza, Tuba Hassan, Muneeba Ali(w), Nida Dar(c), Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana, Omaima Sohail, Diana Baig, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal, Syeda Aroob Shah, Najiha Alvi, Tasmia Rubab, Iram Javed