England stay assured they’ll regain the Ashes with 5 straight white-ball wins over world champions Australia.
The host nation’s final-over loss within the opening Twenty20 in Birmingham on Saturday has left them 6-0 down within the multi-format collection, after Australia additionally gained the Test match.
England have landed just one win within the final 14 accomplished white-ball matches between the 2 sides, and should now win two T20s and three ODIs to snaffle the trophy.
That job begins on Wednesday evening (Thursday AEST) at The Oval, however spinner Sophie Ecclestone insisted that regardless of the chances there stays the idea contained in the camp of successful a primary Ashes collection since 2019.
“We’ve seen weirder things happen than that in cricket,” she mentioned.
“We’re up for the challenge, we know exactly what we need to do.
“We’re actually not far-off from them and that makes us assured going into the remainder of the collection.
“It’s going to be a really hard task to beat the Aussies, five out of five as we go along, but we’re really confident going into tomorrow.
“We’ve had conversations and some conferences about how we need to go about our cricket tomorrow.
“We’re really confident going into it and hopefully we can pull it off.”
A win for Australia will retain the Ashes, whereas victories of their subsequent two will imply they wrap up the multi-format collection at Lord’s on Saturday with three ODIs nonetheless to play.
Such is the boldness that Australia will wrap up the collection, allrounder Ashleigh Gardner was requested by reporters on Tuesday if she would somewhat retain the urn on Wednesday or hold the collection alive for longer.
“You want to win every single game of course,” Gardner mentioned. “We did not come over right here to lose.
“We’re in a superb place for the time being the place we need to retain it at the beginning, and if that occurs tomorrow evening, unbelievable.
“If we can be in a good position at Lord’s to win the Ashes, that’s certainly something we want to do.”
– with AAP
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