Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur admitted her team did not play to their expected level and said it was time to “rethink” after their six-wicket defeat in Australia knocked them out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Sunday.The loss meant that India did not qualify for the semi-finals despite posting 170 for four after being asked to bat. “Today we were in the game for a long time, but I think we didn’t play to our standards and as a group we need to rethink a lot of things,” Kaur said during the post-match presentation.Kaur, who scored a half-century, said India managed to put up a competitive total but accepted that the team did not do well enough against the stronger sides in the tournament.“I think at the end of the day we had a decent total on the board. At one stage, I thought we were a little short, but in the last one I thought I did the job for us.”“But we didn’t play well. Australia played well. Throughout the tournament, we didn’t play well against good teams. We need to improve against good teams,” he said.Australian captain Sophie Molineux praised Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner after the pair added 100 runs for the fourth wicket to guide Australia to victory.“Those two batted beautifully. The way those two use their intelligence, they use their skills and aim at the short border and get the small things, great to see those two come together and put in a great partnership,” said Molineux.“We just had to hang in there as things changed really quickly. Pez (Perry) said that 170 is very, very achievable and his actions speak louder than words and it was good to go out and chase it with Ash,” he added.
