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“I am completely satisfied to be the place we’re and since Australia would be the favourites, that is for positive,” says England supervisor Lisa Keatley, who insists her crew can recuperate from the Ashes defeat. England begin their protection of the World Cup in opposition to Australia reside on Sky Sports activities from 12.30 am on Saturday
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Ashes winner Australia is a powerful contender for the Girls’s World Cup having received 31 out of 33 former worldwide gamers for sooner or later.
England coach Lisa Keatley mentioned Australia will come beneath “additional stress” on the Girls’s World Cup as they method the event as sturdy favourites.
The 2017 champions England start their title protection in opposition to Australia, who’ve crushed them 12-4 within the Ashes multi-format sequence and received 31 of their final 33 worldwide matches.
“I am completely satisfied to be the place we’re and for Australia to be the favourites, that is for positive. It turns into an added stress,” Keightley mentioned earlier than England’s sport with Australia in Hamilton. Stay on Sky Sports activities from 12:30am on Saturday.
“If Australia take a look at it that method, I am not totally positive, however we all know they’ve performed fairly constant cricket over the previous couple of years. They may not say that however everyone knows they’re the favourites.
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Nasser Hussain and Mel Jones focus on England’s possibilities of defending the Girls’s Cricket World Cup title in New Zealand
Having mentioned that, there are a selection of groups that in the event that they play effectively of their day and take their probabilities they will win cricket.
“We have seen [England] He might win the World Cup, although it was 5 years in the past. The gamers and the teaching workers suppose we have got what it takes. There may be a variety of religion.
“We positively have plans [for Australia] And all through the Ashes, these plans labored. It is a matter of placing batting and bowling plans collectively.
“Our plan to hit the primary Ashes T20 was to take the sport to Australia and rating factors and I believe we did that and stunned them. We’ve got plans and we all know once we implement them we will put stress on them.”
It is positively Lauren and Tami [to open]. They’ve a variety of expertise and luxuriate in hitting up collectively and since Lauren’s again in opening, they’ve averaged 32 as a pair. You possibly can take that into the World Cup and in the event you can construct on that, nice. I anticipate Lauren to enhance and dominate
Lisa Keatley confirms England’s opening World Cup pair
England have been sacked for 178, 129 and 163 throughout three one-day internationals on the Ashes Girls’s however piled up with 310 gamers in opposition to Bangladesh on this week’s World Cup warm-up match.
‘England gamers needed to regroup after the ashes’
Keatley – who confirmed that Lauren Winfield Hill would open the bat with Tammy Beaumont in opposition to Australia – added: “After the Ashes, we would have liked our fighters to regroup and begin over.
“I believe once we do it proper and play the best way we wish to, we really feel very threatened by the racket.
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“We have seen it in spots on the Ashes however we most likely have not seen our greatest in the previous couple of video games. It is positively stepping into the best route.
“We’ve got seen over the previous 18 months that our gamers can rating in opposition to good bowling assaults, which has given us confidence.
“We’ve got seen moments of our gamers shifting to Australia and placing them beneath stress.
“The hitters have come collectively which is nice. They’re engaged on the issue and I’m supporting them to carry out effectively.
England, led by Heather Knight, misplaced 12-4 to Australia throughout the Ashes match
“The gamers are in good condition, prepared for the World Cup and searching ahead to it. We obtained collectively and removed what we wished to do away with in regards to the ashes.
“Everybody has one thing to say in regards to the World Cup – for some it’s their first, for some it might be their final.”
Australia was decimated by hosts New Zealand in a World Cup warm-up match because the White Ferns chased a 322-goal with 41 balls to lose, shedding only one junior alongside the best way.
Captain Sophie Devine made 161 out of 117 deliveries, supported by Amelia Kerr (92 not from 75 balls) and Susie Bates (63 from 68).
“New Zealand will certainly attain the semi-finals”
Keatley added: “I believe New Zealand peak on the proper time, which is what you have all the time wished to do in a World Cup at residence. It’ll be actually exhausting to beat.
“They know the situations very effectively they usually have gamers of their degree. I believe they may positively be within the semi-finals and one in every of your hardest matches.”
Australia’s Gardner out of England match
Australia will miss Ashley Gardner of their opening match of the Girls’s World Cup in opposition to England in addition to their second match in opposition to Pakistan after the multi-tiered participant examined optimistic for Covid-19.
Gardner has 43 wickets in 42 one-day internationals and a median of 24.82 with the bats for Australia, who enter as the highest one-day crew.
The 24-year-old is ready to return out of isolation on March 13, coinciding with Australia’s Group C match.
Watch each match of the Girls’s Cricket World Cup reside on Sky Sports activities. Protection of the event’s opening match – hosts New Zealand in opposition to the West Indies – begins on Friday at 12:30am. The England-Australia match is broadcast from 12:30am on Saturday.
