Lauren Bell treats being England’s assault chief as her high precedence because the in-demand seamer admitted she “can’t play each doable recreation”.
After the retirements of Anya Shrubsole and Katherine Sciver-Brunt, Bell is now England captain Heather Knight’s go-to quick bowler in all codecs and the 23-year-old doesn’t take the duty flippantly.
Having shunned the Girls’s Premier League in India in favour of a full position on England’s tour of New Zealand in March, Bell has skipped the primary few weeks of the home season to be primed for the go to of Pakistan.
Bell was initially rusty in her first outing in over a month final Saturday earlier than recovering to take three for 22 in England’s tour-opening win at Edgbaston and he or she accepts having to hit the bottom working now comes with the territory.
“It was my first recreation of the summer season and that could be a bit how my cricket seems to be, that I’m simply going to have are available in and play worldwide cricket,” she stated forward of Friday’s second T20 at Northampton.
“Once I got here again from New Zealand, the way in which I felt, my precedence was to have a bit of additional relaxation after which put together myself very well for this Pakistan sequence.
“I really feel actually lucky that I’ve a lot cricket on supply to me however it’s simply unrealistic to have the ability to play in all of it. I can’t play each doable recreation.
“My precedence is worldwide cricket. I like main this bowling assault. We’ve got so many seamers coming via, I need to maintain main this bowling assault.”
Solely spinners Sophie Ecclestone and Ash Gardner took extra wickets than Bell’s 14 in seven matches in final 12 months’s Ashes, with necessary contributions within the series-levelling T20 leg.
Bell is accustomed to working initially and finish of innings – normally when batters are at their most attacking – and he or she takes consolation within the belief positioned in her by Knight and head coach Jon Lewis.
“Whenever you’re backed by your captain and coach and when you’ve gotten this duty, as a participant it provides me lots of confidence,” she stated. “It’s actually helped my recreation and pushed me ahead.
“The most effective feeling you’ve gotten if you go on to a cricket pitch is figuring out that you’ve got the help and backing of everybody and so they have a very excessive reward for you.”
England want to construct up a head of steam this summer season earlier than October’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh, the place pitches are anticipated to be gradual and low and swimsuit spin bowlers.
Whereas England have a vaunted turning trio of Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn and Charlie Dean, Bell is aware of she can have a key position to play and has already formulated a plan to achieve success.
“We simply know that in Bangladesh, it’s going to be actually necessary to maintain the stumps in play and perhaps lots of pace-off would be the most suitable choice,” she added.
“As a seamer, that will probably be my job together with the very best spinners on the earth, who just about all the time produce the products for us. I’m fairly lucky with what crew I’m in.”
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