Australia coach Shelley Nitschke has admitted the workforce are lacking absent captain Meg Lanning after they suffered a second consecutive defeat to lose a T20 bilateral sequence for the primary time in additional than six years.
England’s five-wicket victory at Lord’s on Saturday night time stored the future of the ladies’s Ashes in dispute with three ODIs to come back.
Afterwards Nitschke mentioned the workforce have been lacking Lanning, however she was assured that they had the gamers to swing momentum within the sequence again of their favour.
Lanning pulled out of the squad shortly earlier than they left for England final month on account of medical causes. The 31-year-old had returned to cricket in January after a six-month psychological well being break.
“She’s one of the best players in the world and she’s been in our cycle a long time, so we were definitely going to miss her,” Nitschke mentioned. “Any team that has had Meg Lanning in their side will miss her when she’s not there.
“She’s always made a lot of runs over here. So we’ve certainly missed her, but I still think we have the team and good depth to cover.”
In Lanning’s absence Australia made 7-155 on Saturday having been put into bat with Beth Mooney (32 off 27), Ash Gardner (32 off 25) and Ellyse Perry (34 off 25) making the principle contributions.
Rain throughout the interval then lowered England’s goal to 119 off 14 overs which they achieved within the remaining over. Only Darcie Brown (1-18 off three overs) and Georgia Wareham (1-10 off two) escaped punishment as 18 year-old Alice Capsey (46 off 23) lower unfastened.
Nitschke indicated that modifications would seemingly be made for the ODI sequence, which begins on Wednesday in Bristol.
“Potentially, yeah. That’s something we’ll look at over the next couple of days. We’ll have a look at what’s out best side for the format and the conditions in Bristol.”
The vacationers fielded the identical XI in all three T20s and whereas no participant failed 3 times all of the batters besides Beth Mooney have been dismissed in single figures whereas of the bowlers solely Darcie Brown carried out constantly all sequence.
Australia have gained 15 consecutive ODIs and the coach added: “They might have the momentum but that can change pretty quickly. We’re confident that we can swing the momentum back our way.”
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