Nat Sciver-Brunt insisted England are specializing in what they’ll management on the Girls’s T20 World Cup and never on making an attempt to keep away from a semi-final towards defending champions Australia.
The 2 nations might be in separate last-four showdowns in the event that they end high of their respective teams, and England moved a step nearer to fulfilling their facet of the discount by beating South Africa.
Sciver-Brunt’s unbeaten 48 off 36 balls helped to barter a difficult chase of 125 with seven wickets and 4 balls to spare on a sluggish and low Sharjah pitch as England made it two from two in Group B.
Australia’s bid obtained a shot within the arm after India’s shock defeat by New Zealand final week though Sciver-Brunt is adamant England aren’t paying an excessive amount of discover of issues outdoors their bounds.
Specializing in themselves
“We all know that end result occurred and observe all of the video games however we’re occupied with ourselves and our subsequent sport,” mentioned Sciver-Brunt, whose facet play their penultimate group match towards Scotland on Sunday.
“We’re not pondering an excessive amount of about what the opposite group’s doing when it comes to positioning in that group.
“We’ve obtained a five-day hole now. We’ll take pleasure in a while off and ensure we’re again on it for that third sport.”
England had misplaced to South Africa at each the 2020 and 2023 Girls’s T20 World Cups and reminiscences of an agonising six-run defeat within the semi-finals final 12 months have been nonetheless contemporary.
However England had underwhelmed with the bat in Saturday’s win towards Bangladesh, registering simply 118 for seven and it was their spinners who made certain the marketing campaign didn’t get off to a false begin.
Match Motion
Their spinners once more got here to the fore as Sophie Ecclestone collected two for 15 and Sarah Glenn one for 18, with South Africa by no means actually in a position to put the hammer down as they posted 124 for six.
It was the primary 120-plus whole within the match on the venue however Sciver-Brunt revealed this was a greater batting strip, regardless of England stumbling to fifteen for one after the primary 5 overs.
Alice Capsey’s 19 off 16 balls was a helpful cameo earlier than Sciver-Brunt placed on 64 in 55 balls alongside Danni Wyatt-Hodge, who adopted up her 41 towards Bangladesh with an equally vital run-a-ball 43.
The pair rode their luck at instances, with a number of false pictures dropping in entrance of catchers, however they manipulated the sphere effectively and ran laborious between the wickets to steadily, if unfashionably, accumulate.
Wyatt-Hodge’s dismissal with 11 off the final two overs wanted was largely irrelevant to the end result and Sciver-Brunt flashed sumptuously over the covers for her sixth 4 to get England residence.
Getting over the road
“We didn’t end our World Cup in the most effective of how towards South Africa final time so we’re actually completely happy to recover from the road,” mentioned Sciver-Brunt.
“On a barely simpler wicket, we batted a bit higher. We wished to make some modifications and run rather well; that was an important factor, to have that intent by means of the center.
“The final plan was to have nice intent with operating and ensure you’re pushing the fielders and utilizing that momentum to create boundaries. Maintaining that scoreboard ticking over was actually vital.
“The circumstances are powerful, we knew they might be. I believe we’ve completed some actually nice studying over these two video games and hopefully we will take that into the third sport.”
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