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Iqbal Cricket Academy: When coaches asked lanky fast-bowling allrounder S Yashasri what she was hoping to gain from the tour of Australia before she travelled there as a member of the India ‘A’ side in August, her immediate response left everyone there laughing.

"It is such a beautiful country, first of all, and the wickets were amazing. So I said to them, ‘Sir, mere ko jaana hai, aur bowling karna hai, (I just want to go and bowl there); that’s enough for me’. The thought inside me was, ‘Just let me bowl in the Australian wickets, I will be fine there’. It was a brilliant exposure for me to go to Australia because as a pacer, who doesn’t want to go there and bowl,” says Yashasri in an exclusive conversation with IANS.

Despite playing only two 50-over games during the multi-format tour, closely studying the routines of the Australian players enabled Yashasri to identify areas for improvement. “For example, it can be execution, pace, and accuracy, and it differed from match to match. Suppose in one match, I can be better in accuracy; in another match, I could have been better at execution.”