Capsey warns Australia: England haven’t even performed at our greatest but
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lice Capsey says England at the moment are absolutely centered on the “bigger picture” of successful again the Ashes after their sensational comeback bid continued in Bristol final evening, with {the teenager} warning: “We haven’t even played our best cricket yet!”
Heather Knight’s unbeaten 75 guided England to their highest-ever ODI run-chase to assert a dramatic two-wicket victory that ranges the sequence scoreline at 6-6 with two video games to play.
After shedding the one-off Test and First T20, England have been confronted with the inconceivable job of needing to win 5 matches on the bounce to wrestle again the Urn, however have now reeled off the primary three of these to stun the world champions going into Sunday’s second ODI in Southampton.
“You look at the bigger picture and we want to win the Ashes,” Capsey mentioned. “We always felt that once we got that first win out of the way, we would go on a bit of a streak.
“We’ve proven quite a lot of combat on this sequence that beforehand we’d not have proven. Going into this sequence, Australia are probably the most profitable cricket crew [in the world] and we knew it was going to be an actual problem. We wished to compete with them, however we have been the underdogs. It’s been sensible to combat again and put the stress again on them.”
Set a daunting target of 264 after Beth Mooney’s unbeaten 81, it looked as if England would be made to rue a host of chances squandered, with five dropped catches and a missed stumping punished to the tune of 128 runs.
However, the tourists were also uncharacteristically sloppy with ball in hand and despite some ugly dismissals that threatened to leave Knight stranded, England got over the line with 11 balls to spare.
“This complete sequence, we have not been at our greatest,” Capsey added. “Even within the T20s we have been most likely enjoying at 80 per cent. Today, we weren’t at our greatest once more, however to recover from the road in stress moments like that’s nice. It’s actually thrilling that we have not performed our greatest cricket but and it is 6-6 with all to play for.”
Australia are now in serious danger of surrendering the Urn for the first time since the home series defeat of 2013-14, having lost three successive matches for the first time in six years, and captain Alyssa Healy says there can be no shying away from their predicament.
“The Ashes is on the road now correct, is not it?” Healy said. “So if that does not galvanise the group, I do not know what does.”