England skipper Sciver-Brunt is assured about her crew’s spin assault.
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Nat Sciver-Brunt believes it’ll be a hard-fought World Cup. “We are starting with South Africa, who have some brilliant players,” the England captain mentioned forward of Friday’s match. “Yes, winning all our warm-up matches is something, but I don’t suppose we could take any of the teams lightly. We could take some confidence from those games, but the nerves will be there.”
She added the girls’s sport had reached some extent from the place lots of sides have been actually aggressive and will win video games in the event. “We have seen in the first two games that the teams who could withstand the pressure the longest will come out on top,” she mentioned. “Both Australia and India had a wobble in their batting but were able to get out of it.”
Sciver-Brunt feels her bowling assault is prepared for the Barsapara Cricket Stadium. “We have a brilliant spin attack,” she mentioned. “We ensure our spinners in the middle are difficult to get away.”
Her South African counterpart Laura Wolvaardt mentioned her crew loved enjoying in opposition to England at the World Cup. “We will be really keen to get a good start against them tomorrow,” the captain mentioned. “We have a strong group of players and we have prepared well.”
She mentioned the South African males’s crew profitable the World Test Championship was superior. “It was amazing to see how the country supported them,” she mentioned. “Hopefully we could do something similar in this tournament to get the country back behind us.”
Wovaardt mentioned the World Cup being held in India was large for the girls’s sport. “The game has grown incredibly in India,” she mentioned. “The pinnacle of all that is having the World Cup in India, where the game has absolutely blown up in the last couple of years.”
Published – October 02, 2025 11:05 pm IST


