India, April 25 -- Indian women's team head coach Amol Muzumdar has backed veteran all-rounder Deepti Sharma to come good but admitted that her prolonged lean patch in national colours is a bit of a "concern".

Indian team under Harmanpreet Kaur has already lost the five-match WT20I series against South Africa after losing three games on the trot, but what has been a concern is Deepti's poor returns with the ball as she has remained wicketless so far.

In the third WT20I match, where Proteas Women chased down 192 with just a wicket down, Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus took Deepti to the cleaners, taking 46 runs from her 3.3 overs.

In fact, Deepti's contribution for India in the last 10 games (across 3 formats) is a meagre 51 runs, and she...