Former England captain Charlotte Edwards believes Alice Capsey’s “wonderful” match-winning knock at Lord’s in opposition to Australia embodies the fearlessness of England within the Ladies’s Ashes.
Teenager Capsey fired 46 from 23 balls to see England to a primary T20 collection win over Australia since 2017 and maintain their Ashes hopes alive, with Heather Knight’s facet now trailing the vacationers 6-4 within the multi-format collection.
Coming into the third and ultimate IT20, Capsey was beneath strain having scored simply 17 runs in her earlier 5 T20 innings however the 18-year-old starred on the House of Cricket in a player-of-the-match show that earned reward from Edwards.
She informed Sky Sports activities: “Alice Capsey was wonderful. That is what she does. The youthful expertise on this England facet, they have no concern, they don’t seem to be fazed.
“We have got to recollect, Alice Capsey has performed in two Lord’s finals [in The Hundred], so tonight was simply one other day for her. It prepares her to play at these venues and to carry out at this stage.
“However nonetheless, to return out on the most important of levels, after the run of type she’s had, it is unbelievable from an 18-year-old woman.
“Everybody was saying, ‘She’s solely scored 17 runs in her final 5 innings’, however then gives that sort of innings.
“There’s so many ladies now desirous to play cricket and watching it tonight, pondering, ‘I wish to be the subsequent Alice Capsey’.”
Edwards: It has been an excellent collection
{The teenager}’s efficiency got here in entrance of a brand new document attendance for a ladies’s bilateral fixture in England, with a crowd of 21,610 at Lord’s.
The remaining three one-day internationals to conclude the collection, beginning on Wednesday at Bristol, are all sold-out with England nonetheless within the hunt to regain the Ashes.
“Everybody mentioned after The Oval [England winning the second IT20] that Australia will come again, they’re going to be harm, they’re going to be again to regular,” Edwards mentioned.
“They had been again to regular tonight, however England nonetheless beat them. And that is the most important praise you may give this workforce – they’ve performed it again to again, and in entrance of 20,000 folks.
“The gang had been wonderful. I feel everybody needed England to win, in order that we go to Bristol with the Ashes nonetheless alive.
“We’re getting full homes in to observe these video games. You don’t need it to finish actually. It has been unbelievable, an excellent collection.”
Knight: Capsey innings ‘prime drawer’ | ‘Ashes nonetheless alive’
England captain, Heather Knight:
“For Caps [Alice Capsey], after two low-scoring innings, for her to return out and play like that, with the arrogance she confirmed, it was prime drawer.”
“It is actually vital how we have gone about it within the final two video games that we’ve not appeared too far forward. The way in which we carried out tonight was sensible.
“There’s quite a lot of perception in that facet. Onto the ODIs. There’s nonetheless a protracted method to go, there’s not a lot room for error however one sport at a time.”
Participant of the Match, Alice Capsey:
“It has been unbelievable. The collection continues to be alive, which is wonderful. It was an ideal efficiency.
“T20 cricket, particularly the way in which I play, typically I’ll come off and typically I will not.
“It is nearly getting higher and attempting to grow to be extra constant at it. I have been working arduous within the nets and been given quite a lot of backing by the teaching employees.”
Healy: England out-braved us
Australia captain, Alyssa Healy:
“England out-braved us and batted rather well. They performed some fearless cricket and acquired themselves over the road.
“That is the great thing about the T20 format. While you’re not fairly on, you may get pounced upon by groups.
“England have performed a very nice model of cricket all through the collection and we did not fairly match that.
“Fortuitously, we have nonetheless acquired three video games of this Ashes collection to select ourselves up. We go into the one-day format, which we completely love.”
What’s subsequent?
The multi-format collection now switches to the three-match ODI collection, beginning with the opening sport at Bristol, dwell on Sky Sports activities Cricket from 12.30pm on Wednesday, with play beginning at 1pm.
The 2 groups will then head to The Ageas Bowl in Southampton on Sunday, July 16 (11am begin) and Taunton for the ultimate sport of the collection on Tuesday, July 18 (1pm begin).
Ladies’s Ashes schedule (all video games dwell on Sky Sports activities)
Watch the primary ODI of the multi-format Ladies’s Ashes between England and Australia on Wednesday, dwell on Sky Sports activities Cricket from 12.30pm, forward of the primary ball at 1pm. Stream this summer season’s males’s and ladies’s Ashes collection on NOW