birmingham india pacer renuka singh thakur on friday reaped the rewards for her extensive work on speed agility and endurance over the past one monththe indian team trained at the national cricket academy in bengaluru ahead of the commonwealth gamesrenuka who made her india debut last year produced a sensational spell of four for 18 and made australia very nervous but the reigning world champions showed their depth and muscle to end up with a threewicket win in the cwg openerive been working on my fitness for the past month we had a dedicated fitness camp and ive worked on speed agility and endurance im a fast bowler so those are really important skills that has helped me a lot she said after the gamethe indian removed the dangerous alyssa healy and tahlia mcgrath in her memorable spell she enjoyed tahlias scalp the most after castling her with an inswingerive been working on my swing i need to swing the ball thats my primary skill the first wicket i took healy was an important player so that gave me a lot of confidence tahlia was my favourite wicketindia had australia on the ropes at 49 for five before squandering the advantagethe absence of bowling allrounder pooja vastrakar who is in india due to a covid19 infection was felt in australias chaseindia have only two pace bowlers but the conditions today suited pacers we missed pooja today its a different feeling to win but im hopeful the gap can be filled next timeindia take on pakistan on sunday