India women's ODI team captain Mithali Raj is disappointed for not being able to complete a series whitewash against England, but said the 2-1 win over the current world champions would act as a huge confidence booster for her side.
Mithali rued the missed opportunity to not only complete a 3-0 series whitewash against a quality side like England, but also lose out on crucial two points in the ICC Women's Championship.
"Well, it does play a very important part because, obviously we are not playing Pakistan and we just have one more team that we are still to play, the West Indies," said Mithali after the hosts lost the third and final ODI of the series by two wickets here on Thursday.
Putting things in perspective, Mithali said India now has only the contest against the West Indies to look for after having lost two points each against Sri Lanka, South Africa and also in New Zealand.
"So pretty much in totality we lost eight points when we were in a position to grab those 2 points in all those series. So it is disappointing but winning against one of the quality sides with full strength gives lot of confidence to this side," she added.
She said only against New Zealand the team became a bit complacent after wrapping up the rubber.
"Only in New Zealand, we felt it was a one-sided game in the third ODI. But it was a well fought match against Sri Lanka, which went till the last over and also in South Africa when we played South Africa, so those matches were well fought," Mithali said.
She said the issue was addressed before the series against England and the team was determined to make it 3-0.
"But this (issue) we did address and the girls do understand. We will definitely work on it, so that in the coming series, if we are in a similar position, we would like to make it 3-0."
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