Indian all-rounder Deepti Sharma, the ‘Player of the Tournament’ in Women in Blue’s maiden 50-over World Cup triumph earlier this month, said that improvements in her batting was due to practicing with her elder brother back home in Agra adding that her mantra as a batter was to score everywhere and as much as possible in least amount of balls.

The 28-year-old had an all-timer World Cup campaign, which erased the pain of the heartbreaking nine-run loss to England in the 2017 final, as part of which Deepti succumbed during a shocking batting collapse from 191/3 to 219 while chasing 229.

In this tournament, she scored 215 runs in seven innings with three fifties and took 22 wickets. Saving her absolute lethal for the last, she hit a run-a-ball half-century and took a game-changing five-wic

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