Deepti Sharma is a champion player, one or two games don’t justify her talent: India bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi
Deepti Sharma is enduring a rare lean patch in T20s, but India bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi has backed the allrounder to bounce back. Despite India trailing 0-2 against South Africa women's cricket team, Salvi stressed her proven pedigree and said the team remains confident of a turnaround ahead of the upcoming T20 World Cup.
MUMBAI: Over the years, Deepti Sharma has been India’s rock, both with the bat and the ball. With 22 wickets in nine matches at 20. 40, and 215 runs at 30.
71, with three half-centuries, the 28-year-old ace off-spinning allrounder played a stellar role in India’s Women’s 2025 ODI World Cup triumph in Oct-Nov last year. However, Depti’s performances in T20 cricket haven’t been up to her usual high standards this year. In the WPL, she took seven wickets in eight matches at 31.
42, at an economy rate of 8. 80 and scored just 131 runs at 21. 83 as the UP Warriorz failed to make it to the playoffs.
In the ongoing five-match T20I series in South Africa, Deepti has failed to take a wicket so far, conceding 0-24 (in 2. 1 overs) and 0-23 (in three overs) in the first two games in Durban, besides scoring 1* and 1 in India’s six-wicket and eight-wicket defeats. Missing Deepti’s knack of taking wickets and putting the opponents on the backfoot, India have gone down 0-2, and are in danger of losing the series if they are beaten in the third match at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Wednesday.