England insist their hopes of regaining the ladies’s Ashes will not be over regardless of Australia already having one hand on the trophy after their win within the sole Test.
Ashleigh Gardner’s heroics to spin Australia to an 89-run win at Trent Bridge on Monday have given Australia a 4-0 factors lead within the multi-format sequence.
Two factors can be found for every of the remaining three Twenty20 and one-day video games, making eight the magical quantity for Australia to retain the Ashes.
It means England would wish to win 5 of these six video games to win again the Ashes from Australia for the primary time since 2015.
Highlighting the magnitude of the duty forward of the hosts, England have been restricted to at least one win of their previous 13 accomplished white-ball video games in opposition to Australia since 2019.
But captain Heather Knight insisted there was nonetheless hope.
“We have to believe, of course,” Knight stated.
“We’ll not look too far ahead. I think when you look at it like that is tricky mentally, but you have to look at the first game and that’ll be Edgbaston on Saturday.
“We will not be wanting too far forward of that.”
Knight insisted there were positives to take from England’s performance in the Test, believing that her side had gone toe-to-toe with Australia for the majority of the match.
England looked in the hunt to chase down 268 for victory in the fourth innings when they got away to a start of 0-55, before Gardner took 8-66 to run through the hosts.
“We’ll simply park it,” Knight stated.
“Obviously, we have got fairly an uphill battle however I feel if proceed to play the way in which we wish to and put the Australians underneath strain by way of how we play.
“The main thing will be getting our mentality right coming back again at Edgbaston.
“It’s a format we have performed a hell of a number of crickets significantly lately with the World Cups. It’s a format we all know very nicely and we play very nicely.”
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