'Whatever he said...' - India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur gives befitting reply to Nasser Hussain's 'schoolgirl error' remark

Once again Harmapreet Kaur-led India Women's side suffered another loss in the mega-events. In the first semifinal between India and Australia in the ongoing Women's 20-20 World Cup 2023, the Women in Blue lost the game by five runs. During most part of the second innings, the 2020 finalists were winning the game. However, after Kaur's run-out in the 15th over, the game changed heavily.

Meanwhile, after the game, former England skipper Naseer Hussain called it schoolgirl stuff. During the post-match press conference, a reporter asked the India skipper about her reaction to Hussain's statement.

"How will you take the pressure when someone like Naseer Hussain on live commentary calls it a schoolgirl error or a club cricket error? How do you defend something like that?" the reporter asked.

This kind of runout has happened a lot of times in the game: Harmanpreet Kaur

In reply, the India skipper said that she has seen batters getting out the way she did in the semifinal.

"He said that? Yes. Okay. I don't know. That is a way of thinking. I don't know. But sometimes it happens. I have seen many times in cricket when batters are taking a single like that and sometimes the bat is stuck there. But obviously, I will take it as we were unlucky today. Maybe something still, we have to improve to go to the finals because we definitely didn't field badly. We didn't bowl well in patches. Sometimes we didn't bat well. If you want to win any game, we have to do well in all the departments. Then only you have more chances to go to the semis, to the finals. I think it was unlucky but I don't think it was a mistake by a schoolgirl because we are mature enough. We are playing international cricket and whatever he said, that's his way of thinking. But I don't think it was like that," Harmanpreet said.