After a hat-trick of defeats, India find themselves in a precarious situation at the ICC Women’s World Cup and are in danger of not qualifying for the semifinals of their home event. It is a situation that New Zealand captain Sophie Devine can relate to, as the White Ferns missed out on a place in the final four in their home tournament last time in 2022.

“This is pretty much a quarter final and we’re really stepping towards that pressure,” Devine said in the press conference on Wednesday. “Look, in all honesty, I can’t begin to imagine the type of pressure that the Indian team is under. I know when we played at a home World Cup, the pressure that we felt to perform in front of our home crowd, in front of our own country was at times overwhelming. I can’t imagine what that’s like with a b

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