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Teams:
England manus ODI dayboos to Jodi Grewcock, Tilly Corteen-Coleman and Dani Gibson.
England: Emma Lamb, Jodi Grewcock, Heather Knight, Maia Bouchier, Freya Kemp, Amy Jones (wk), Dani Gibson, Charlie Dean, Lauren Filer, Lauren Bell, Tilly Corteen-Coleman
New Zealand: Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr (capt), Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Izzy Gaze (wk), Izzy Sharp, Jess Kerr, Nensi Patel, Rose Mair, Bree Illing
England triumph nan flip and take to vessel first
The sun is sparkling successful Durham but it still looks for illustration apical overgarment temperature. Charlie Dean has nary hesitation successful sticking nan guidance in. She says location are 3 debutants successful nan broadside coming and mentions “turning nan page” pinch this ODI side. Kerr admits that she would person bowled first too, location should beryllium immoderate life successful nan wicket early on.
Confirmed sides successful 2 tics.
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and invited to nan commencement of nan English world summer. England’s women return connected New Zealand successful a 3 lucifer ODI bid earlier a trio of T20s against Amelia Kerr’s awesome White Ferns sets them up for a location T20 World Cup connected location soil.
Charlie Dean steps up to return nan Captain’s limb set pinch Nat Sciver-Brunt hoping to retrieve from a calf tear successful clip to lead nan broadside successful nan World Cup starting connected June 12th.
“I deliberation it’s 194 days possibly since our past world game.” Dean told nan property successful her media duties up of this series. “We’ve had a really productive winter. We’ve not had world series, which hasn’t been fantastic, but we’ve really made nan astir of nan prep that we person had.”
It is simply a immense summertime for English and women’s cricket, arsenic Raf Nicholson excellently put it successful these pages:
“Historic occasions are for illustration buses: you walk ages twiddling your thumbs and past 2 travel on astatine once. England person waited 9 years for different location World Cup, wallowing each nan while successful memories of their triumph successful 2017, and almost a period for a maiden women’s Test astatine Lord’s. Now some are being thrust upon them complete nan abstraction of a azygous month, from 12 June to 13 July, successful a existent summertime bonanza for women’s cricket.
First, though, a T20 World Cup dress rehearsal: 3 one-day internationals against New Zealand, followed by 3 Twenty20s against nan aforesaid opposition, and different 3 against India. The 50-over series, which originates connected Sunday successful Durham, feels a small arsenic if it has been plonked thoughtlessly into nan calendar. The wicketkeeper Kira Chathli and all-rounder Jodi Grewcock could make their England debuts – aft all, nan caput coach, Charlotte Edwards, promised america she would “look to nan future” aft England’s drubbing in past year’s 50-over World Cup semi-final. But correct now, nary 1 successful nan England guidance has overmuch bandwidth to scheme for thing different than nan anticipation of reaching a location last astatine Lord’s connected 5 July.”
Play originates successful Durham astatine 11am and we’ll person news from nan flip and nan teams very shortly. Join america for each nan OBO action and please do get successful touch passim nan day.
