Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024: England look ‘very sturdy’ however holders Australia nonetheless ‘the aspect to beat’ | Cricket Information

Sky Sports activities’ Nasser Hussain seems to be forward to the 2024 Girls’s T20 World Cup, assessing England’s probabilities of ending their 15-year watch for a second title, in addition to holders Australia’s hopes of securing a seventh success.

How are England trying heading into World Cup?

They have a really sturdy staff, a very good mix of youth and expertise.

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And clearly they are going to need to go not less than one stage higher than after they acquired knocked out within the semi-finals final 12 months to hosts South Africa.

I coated that World Cup and England undoubtedly have been way more attacking – they’ve been ever since Jon Lewis has been head coach… and it seems to be prefer it’s changing into way more pure to them.

They have good spin choices, which I feel you want in ladies’s cricket, and for the circumstances within the UAE, with Sharjah and Dubai the 2 venues.

The video games are double-headers, and I discovered that within the males’s T20 World Cup held within the UAE [in 2022], it was very toss-dependent due to the dew, which implies you are likely to bowl first after which chase below lights.

With the bat, Alice Capsey is again to her finest. It seems to be virtually like she suffered final 12 months from virtually second-season syndrome – folks work you out slightly bit and you must deal with being that form of famous person that everybody is speaking about in English cricket.

In addition to Capsey, you’ve got then acquired the expertise of Danni Wyatt and Nat Sciver-Brunt, and the skipper Heather Knight is in nice type too. She had a wonderful Hundred, lifting the trophy for London Spirit at Lord’s.

The captain enjoying nicely I all the time suppose is vital. When you consider somebody like Meg Lanning traditionally, when she’s captained Australia, you lead from the entrance.

Talking of Australia, England acquired a variety of confidence off the again of beating Australia – who’re nonetheless the aspect to beat – within the white-ball a part of the multi-format Ashes collection final 12 months.

What do you make of the squad they’ve chosen?

They have these three high quality spin choices.

Sophie Ecclestone continues to be the primary bowler on the earth on this format, and then you definitely’ve additionally acquired Sarah Glenn and Charlie Dean… the three of them are completely excellent.

They’ve additionally acquired one other spin choice within the squad as nicely in Linsey Smith. She is a superb choice, giving England one other spin choice to bowl within the powerplay – she was completely magnificent in The Hundred, bowled economically and had wicket-taking potential.

The one factor I would say is, how typically are they going to choose 4 spinners and have her within the staff?

They left Lauren Filer – tall, quick bowler – out of the squad, and I’ll have gone with that choice just because I all the time wish to take folks within the squad who will play within the staff.

You have already acquired three spinners and if it actually turns, you’ve got all the time acquired Capsey as nicely, who bowls a little bit of off-spin.

Will Australia’s dominance proceed?

With Australia, the expectation is to simply win. That is the identical with any Australian aspect in a World Cup, males’s or ladies’s.

It isn’t a case of, ‘we acquired by to a ultimate and the opposite aspect performed nicely’. That doesn’t occur.

I keep in mind being on the protection in South Africa final 12 months after they received the ultimate and saying, ‘that is one of the best cricketing aspect we have seen – males or ladies’.

I feel Tammy Beaumont stated it might be one of the best ever sporting aspect, given the quantity they’ve received and their dominance over the previous decade or so – Commonwealth Video games, 50-over World Cups, T20 cricket and The Ashes.

Regardless of the format, they’re serial winners.

That stated, I feel they do miss Meg Lanning. I feel there was a slight drop off since her retirement due to her significance to that aspect, the way in which she led and the way in which she batted.

This can be a first main event with Alyssa Healy in cost. She has to give attention to retaining, opening the batting and captaining, so the important thing for her is to have the ability to compartmentalise all of that and do it nicely.

She’s a incredible participant, so I feel if Healy has a very good event, that may go a good distance in direction of Australia successful – as a result of as she features confidence, that may then filter by to the staff.

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What do you make of the opposite groups’ prospects?

I might nonetheless have a look at the 4 semi-finalists from final time, England, South Africa, India and Australia. They’re the 4 powerhouses.

There are not any straightforward video games although. Different sides have some particular person brilliance inside their groups, just like the West Indies with Hayley Matthews.

I might additionally control Sri Lanka, with Chamari Athapaththu and a few of the youthful women who’re bettering exponentially in that squad.

I’ve additionally seen that with Pakistan, they’re beginning to attempt to play extra aggressively, notably with the bat.

I’ve all the time felt with the Pakistan ladies’s aspect, with the ball and within the discipline, they’re glorious, however when you rating over 140 or 150 towards them, they battle to match that with the bat.

Not too long ago towards South Africa, I famous they acquired an enormous rating, and that tells me they’ve had an actual change of mindset. It will likely be fascinating to see how they do.

Do England have the better draw?

Group A seems to be barely more durable, however what you possibly can’t afford is to have that mindset going into the event of ‘we’re within the straightforward group’ and begin trying ahead to the semi-finals.

I am positive Heather and the staff, and head coach John Lewis, is not going to suppose that approach in any respect, as a result of when you do you possibly can come unstuck in a event.

You may simply lose one sport, particularly in T20, the shorter the format – it simply takes one participant to have an absolute blinder with bat or ball and also you’re nicely up towards it.

Then, when you’ve misplaced one, abruptly your group does not look as straightforward, as a result of each sport thereafter turns into must-win.

Watch each match of the 2024 Girls’s T20 World Cup reside on Sky Sports activities, beginning with the event opener between Bangladesh and Scotland on Thursday October 3 in Sharjah and concluding with the ultimate in Dubai on Sunday October 20.