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[caption id="attachment_51385" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Sachin Tendulkar joined Modi to congratulate the Indian Women's team.
Pic Courtesy: twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: After the Prime Minister of the nation, Narendra Modi, the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has praised the Indian women’s cricket team for their brilliant performance in the ICC World Cup held at England. Though the women’s side lost the finals to England, the girls has won the hearts of 125 crore people said Modi on 'Mann Ki Baat'. My thoughts resonate with those of our PM @narendramodi shared on #MannKiBaat regd my fellow Indian women cricketers' exemplary performance," Tendulkar posted on his Twitter handle after the programme. Narendra Modi claimed that he felt pain when the nation lost the finals by 9 runs after chasing a modest total of 229 runs. "Our women cricketers did us proud at the recently-concluded Women's World Cup. I got a chance to meet them this week and I felt really nice talking to them. But I sensed that they felt really bad for not winning the World Cup," Modi said. "They looked tense. But I told them about my own assessment that this is a media driven world and expectations from players are hyped manifold. And when these expectations aren't met, they turn in aggression. "We have seem many instances where if our team loses, the whole country is enraged. In fact, what hurts the most is when few people cross their limits and go on to say and write very shameful things," he added. He further said: "But this is the first instance when the country stood together with our team when they couldn't lift the title. Not just this, but the entire nation lauded the performance of these athletes as well. "I see this as a pleasant change. And I also told them that they are lucky to have this kind of support. It doesn't matter that you couldn't win the title as you have won the hearts of 125 crore people," Modi added.