Lewis defends England staff choice after shock Sri Lanka collection loss
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ngland Women’s coach Jon Lewis has defended the choice to relaxation key gamers after his aspect’s shock collection defeat by Sri Lanka, insisting: “We learned a hell of a lot”.
Lewis’s staff had been left surprised because the aspect ranked a distant No8 on the planet adopted the weekend’s shock win within the second T20 at Chelmsford with one other in Derby on Wednesday night time to assert a 2-1 collection victory, their first over England in any format.
England had rested quite a lot of senior gamers for the collection, together with Nat Sciver-Brunt and Sophie Ecclestone (who’s now sidelined with an damage), and as an alternative handed alternatives to kids equivalent to 17-year-old fast Mahika Gaur.
“I learned a lot, a hell of a lot,” Lewis mentioned. “I really feel like we’re on a journey as a staff and we try to work out how we wish to play and the mindset we wish to go into every recreation with and which people are able to doing that.
“You won’t find that out unless you expose them to international cricket.
“The decision-making before the series was very much around giving opportunity to players on the edge of our squad to try and learn about what they are capable of under pressure.”