“I feel the final two innings of mine [in the WBBL] did not go that nicely,” Rodrigues mentioned. “Grace Harris and Laura Harris each of them texted me and mentioned, ‘Jemi, your over additional cowl drive is the very best. Do not cease your self from taking part in that. Even for those who get out, it is high quality. However simply maintain dominating’. So I feel that basically helped me in [the Strikers] knock simply to have that sort of backing firstly out of your staff that the staff nonetheless believes in you and on the identical time, simply they’re like, ‘No, we’re nonetheless going to take the constructive route. We’re nonetheless going to play constructive cricket and bat with intent’.
“So 100%, that mindset – simply to study from them [Australians]. There is a saying at all times that if there are two choices, at all times take the constructive one. So I feel that’s one thing I’ve additionally been actually engaged on in my sport and simply to have individuals round you after two failures, I had these doubts – ‘ought to I nonetheless play with this mindset or ought to I not?’. They had been like ‘simply go all out’ and that basically helped me. That is one thing that I’ll take with me 100% hopefully carry it out with the Aussies and simply proceed to do nicely.”
Rodrigues feels dealing with different worldwide bowlers in leagues all over the world is sweet for her confidence, particularly with the ODI World Cup scheduled in lower than a 12 months.
“Taking part in these international leagues and taking part in the WPL, it does assist since you play towards the very best on the planet in all these leagues and on the identical time you get to play in several circumstances,” she mentioned. “Each floor is so completely different to the opposite and I feel that is without doubt one of the finest components of taking part in franchise cricket that you just get used to the circumstances and also you get to play the highest bowlers in ladies ‘s cricket.
“Think about simply going on the market and doing nicely, how a lot confidence you may get coming again into the Indian staff whenever you’ve taken on these bowlers. So I feel it is a good preparation main into the World Cup. On the identical time, it is simply good video games as a result of the extra matches we play, the higher we change into. I feel that is the very best half about having WBBL, the WPL, the Hundred, the Caribbean Premier League, all of the leagues.”
“For me, nothing a lot adjustments in my method,” Rodrigues mentioned. “Nothing a lot will even change in my mindset. I feel I’ll nonetheless again myself to play constructive cricket, however on the identical time being extra wise as a result of it is a longer format and attempting to increase this innings even longer, scoring increasingly more runs for India. So I feel that is the same mindset. Once more, it is about how I assess the circumstances and assess the state of affairs.”
“I feel that was an excellent initiative by the ICC. I bear in mind once I had gone in that line as a result of generally social media will be harsh. On the finish all of us are people, all of us are we right here doing our greatest, attempting to do no matter we will. Some methods we’re nice. Some methods we aren’t. So it is simply harsh after we see individuals simply commenting all types of issues on social media. Nevertheless it was such a pleasant factor from ICC simply to guard us and simply to maintain the sport so pure. We [needed to] simply go on the market and play cricket and revel in cricket than coping with all these items. So it was, it was very nice from ICC.”
