New Delhi: Being a student of psychology has given Pratika Rawal some insight into how a human mind works, and her gut feel told her that Shafali Verma, who came in as her replacement in the World Cup knock-outs, would do something special in the final.
Her intuition was right about Shafali, even though it was all down to a cruel twist of fate that prevented Rawal from playing the two biggest games of her career because of an injured ankle and knee.
“Shafali doesn’t need motivation. She plays with instinct and belief.
Before the final, she came up to me and said, ‘I’m really sorry you can’t play,’ and I told her it’s fine, these things happen. I had a feeling she would do something special that day,” Rawal told PTI Videos.
