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Veteran India pacer Jhulan Goswami on Wednesday backed teen batting sensation Shafali Verma to overcome her poor form in the ongoing ICC women’s World Cup sooner than later, saying that the swashbuckler is hitting the ball quite well during net sessions.

The MCC said in a statement that the game had evolved and the MCC Laws sub-committee had suggested changes for the 2022 Code, “which were subsequently approved at the Club’s Main Committee meeting last week.”

India’s Mukund Sasikumar, who has five ITF Futures titles to his credit, leads the field with players from Australia, Czech Republic, Germany and England in the fray in the US $15,000 prize money SKME ITF Open, a part of the International Tennis Federation’s World Tennis Tour, which will be played here from March 14 to 20.

India’s ODI vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Wednesday revealed that she was “going into a shell” before the team’s psychologist Mugdha Bavare helped her get “clear ideas” and regain form in the run-up to the Women’s World Cup.