Charlotte Edwards: ‘Queen of English cricket’ can inspire success, says Kate Cross, with 2025 Women’s World Cup on horizon | Cricket News

Kate Cross hopes that “the Queen of the English cricket”, the head coach Charlotte Edwards, can help bring England to the top of the international match while they intensify their preparations for the Women’s World Cup.

England will face India in the first of the three international internationals in Southampton on Wednesday – live the Sky Sports Cricket From 12:30 p.m. (first ball, 1 p.m.) – at the rear of a 3-2 T20 defeat by the same opposition.

Edwards, who directed England at 50 and T20 glory of the World Cup in 2009, replaced Jon Lewis as head coach in April after the team was swept in the women’s ashes of winter, following a group outing at the T20 2024 World Cup.

“She is the queen of English cricket, right?” Cross said Edwards.

“I spoke during a press conference months ago of the way Lottie was the captain who gave me my first ceiling, so it’s a bit like a full circle for me when one of the best English cricket players play the game now leads the team.

“She is so passionate about English cricket and so passionate about the cricket of women. She is the biggest badger I know – she has literally looked at each ball you play or each ball you are facing, she is really on it. She has about seven portable computers, I think, to look [T20] Blast Games.

“But her knowledge around the game is simply phenomenal, so I think we feel really lucky that we had a coach with this kind of experience, but also with the career she had in the game, arrive to guide us and make us a better team, so it was brilliant.”

Cross added her former captain who became a coach: “She just didn’t change at all. She is still the same Lottie who was my captain eight or nine years old, so it was really charming for me to have it around.

“She is also very fun. She still brushes and makes you laugh, which is a very pleasant place to be in an international locker room.”

One of the main criticisms launched in England during the T20 World Cup and the chess of the ashes that led to a change of head coach were the standards of fitness and implementation.

During the defeat of the T20 series against India, the field of England – Drop Catchs, in particular – returned under the spotlight, but Cross stressed that the time is necessary for the hard work that the team puts on this front to pour dividends.

“It’s difficult. I know that we still get a lot of press around our alignment. This is not where we want it to be and we know that there have been errors made in key moments,” said Cross.

“But I hope that if we can be tried in six months, eight months, 12 months when the new diet has had the opportunity to go to bed, then I hope that the comments that are made will be … Not fairer, because I think that the comments that have been made are fair enough for the moment.

“But you will only see the changes that will adapt to the new diet that Lottie wants to bring.”

Cross added: “Obviously, winning is really important. But I think that for us as a team, it is a question of determining how we want to play our cricket of a day under Lottie.”

“There is a line drawn in the sand with that [T20] series. Obviously, with the result, it was not the way we wanted the series to take place.

“This is a new start in terms of Nile-Nil still now [in the ODIs]Isn’t it? And this is an opportunity to try to get a victory on the board tomorrow to go 1-0 in the series. “”

England vs India Schedule

All times in the United Kingdom and Ireland; All live on Sky Sports

T20 International Series

One -day international series

• First Odi: Wednesday July 16 (1 p.m.) – Southampton
• Second Odi: Saturday July 19 (11 a.m.) – Lord’s
• Third Odi: Tuesday July 22 (1 p.m.)-Chester-le-Street

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