England Women are ready for a comeback in Melbourne after losing the first game of Ashes on Sunday. Lauren Bell, the England seamer believes just a poor start to the pretty long series will not have a major impact. She said, “We’re just going to have to reset” after the 4-wicket loss to Australia.
A low-scoring opener ends in favour of Australia
England were bowled out for a mere 204 inside 44 overs as Ashleigh Gardner led the Australian bowling attack with 3-19. The series-opener later saw Australia chasing down the target with 67 balls to space. However, Lauren Bell who was economical in claiming 1-25 in her nine overs, said, “We got 200 on a pitch that I think the par score batting first was about 250, so putting in an effort to almost defend that was, I think you can take a lot of confidence from it.”
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Alice Capsey dropped Ellyse Perry off Lauren Filer and Sophie Ecclestone’s fumble added to the woes of England. Bell address the issues and remarked, “There are a few things that we could definitely work on moving forward. Obviously Australia caught very well and we dropped a few in at important moments. Moving forward, there’s a few places we can work on and really focus on the next game, but I think as a whole we can take a fair amount of confidence from the game.”
“Imagine it’s nil-nil and go again”
Lauren Bell sounded optimistic albeit after the poor start to Ashes. She explained, “We’re one game into a pretty long series and we’re two-nil down, but we’re going to have to start the next game and imagine it’s nil-nil and go again”. She added, “That is the beauty of these series. We can come back and we’re just going to have to reset and go with our plan and just go again.”
England will look forward to an all-round performance in Melbourne before moving to the ODI series decider in Hobart. The Women’s Ashes will then see the arch-rivals take on each other in three T20Is and a 4-day Test match. “We’re just going to have to adapt really quickly, communicate with the girls that maybe have played at Junction Oval and try and get as much information as we can about the pitch. Then the opening batters, if we bat first, or the opening bowlers, it’s just really important to communicate what the pitch is doing as soon as we get there,” Bell opined.
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