India, Oct. 26 -- In this roller coaster home World Cup ride for the Indian women's team, it seems quite a while ago that Amanjot Kaur dropped this line after her rescue act in the opening win over Sri Lanka: "You can't say that India was in trouble, I was yet to bat." Four matches later, she found herself dropped from the playing XI.

It wasn't that long ago that Jemimah Rodrigues, who lifted India's total to 340 with an unbeaten 76 batting at No.3 in the penultimate league game, was sidelined to the bench a match before.

It has been a rather puzzling, almost paradoxical, campaign for Harmanpreet Kaur's side so far. They suffered three straight defeats, and yet are into the knockouts with a game to go after a critical win over New Zeala...