India will look to dominate rivals in Asia Cup: Harmanpreet

Seeking to continue their domination over teams in the sub-continent, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur said they are using the Women’s Asia Cup as a platform to prepare for the upcoming T20 World Cup.

Seeking to continue their domination over teams in the sub-continent, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Thursday said they are using the Women's Asia Cup as a platform to prepare for the upcoming T20 World Cup.

The continental tournament, to held in the T20 format this year, begins here from Friday with India taking on traditional rivals Pakistan, while the World Cup will be hosted by Bangladesh later this year.

Since the tournament's inception in 2004, India have ruled the roost, clinching the trophy in all the seven editions (T20Is and ODIs combined).

“This tournament is very important for all of us because we give equal respect to this tournament and want to improve at the Asian as well as at the world level.

“So our focus will remain same as we prepare for the T20 World Cup or any other World Cup. Each and every game is important for us and we will try to give our best,” Harmanpreet said at the captains’ press conference.

“The challenge will be to keep doing the right things which we have done in the past Asia Cups, keep playing the same type of cricket, and keep dominating other teams and enjoy our cricket,” she added.

The Harmanpreet-led side is the team to beat going into this iteration of the Asia Cup.