New Zealander all-rounder Sophie Devine expressed disappointment at the scarce turn out for the opening game of the Women's T20 Challenge in Jaipur but was hopeful of a full house in the future.
"It is really unfortunate that in women's games we don't have big crowds but hopefully after tonight's match the people would come to the stadium and would watch us play," Sophie said at the post match conference.
"We would love to have big crowds but we know we need to put good performances. The match tonight was fantastic and next two games and the finals would get good crowd," Sophie, who scored 32 off 22 balls for the Supernovas, said.
The tournament which has three teams playing each other in the round robin format gives the opportunity to 27 domestic players to showcase their talent and the New Zealander was impressed by the standard of the domestic players.
Talking about the game, the all-rounder said the track was a bit tricky and commended Supernovas' skipper Harmanpreet's performance.
“It is really disappointing, we were so close. We needed 30 off last three overs on a pitch that was a little bit tricky and it was probably asking for too much.”
"But Harmanpreet, you know can do those sort of things and she took us very close to a great win. We have to work on a few things as a team. We have a few days off."
"I knew if I was going to play till the end, I had the confidence to win but Sophie bowled the 19th over well and that changed it for us," Harmanpreet said.
Meanwhile, young Harleen Deol, who was the second highest scorer for the Trailblazers with 36 runs, was happy to share the dressing room with experienced overseas players.
"It is a great experience, we are learning a lot of things from them, they are very frank with us, they share their thoughts, they share their views, so we are very grateful that we are sharing the dressing room with them," she said.
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