During the pre-match press conference in Guwahati on Monday, ahead of India’s ODI World Cup opener, captain Harmanpreet Kaur recalled the only women’s series that was played at the venue. “We played in 2019, if I’m not wrong. Three T20s here. That time I wasn’t there as I was injured. But those were day games. Now we are playing day and night. I’m sure after so many years, conditions must have changed from what we played that time. But as I mentioned, because we have seen so much cricket on TV, Indian conditions always remain the same. The only thing which we have to keep in mind is the dew factor, because of the weather (very humid), and the lights will be on.”

And so, as the teams completed their warm-ups inside the venue and made it out to the nets just outside the stadium’s entrance,

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