England hoped the four goal victory against India finally set their World Cup defense after violating a warrior scratch who had placed their campaign in danger.
After the defeat of Australia, West Indies and South Africa – the last two were marked with sub-par performance in the field – England held their catch and pulled two very good run-out to close the total above 37.
Their bowling efforts were led by 4 to 23 of the Charlie Dean match player, the 21-year-old offspinner who played only the ninth Occans, and the veteran designer Anya Shrubsole, which regulated the tone with the first two numbers. Heather Knight, their captain, brought pursuit with 53 unbeaten along 45 sciver-nat balls, saw an English home with a reserve of 18.4.
Although another defeat will not mathematically spelling the end of the British challenge, it will make them depend on some results that cannot be elsewhere in their efforts to reach the last four. However, a considerable victory margin, after three narrow defeats in their opening equipment, it cannot be an important factor if they can win the remaining three matches, starting with New Zealand on Saturday, given some of their main rivals for the qualifications yet to face each other .
“It’s very pleasant to get a victory on the board with a pretty good performance and hopefully this is the beginning of a few wins,” Shrubsole said about the victory, who broke six matches in a successive defeat back to the feet of Abu. . “It’s been a long time since we won, we couldn’t make a secret about it. This is a difficult tour.
“It’s nice to get a victory on the board, to play well, but this is one of the four truly that we need to win. We will obviously celebrate the victory and then to get to Auckland and change our focus to the New Zealand game. “
England faces New Zealand – in the middle of the central table with India and West Indies – this weekend, followed by Pakistan and Bangladesh, who both ranks below them. Each of the three main rivals it still has to face South Africa, who along with Pace-Seters Australia is the only unbeaten team at the table.
While England released a pressure valve at their World Cup with Wednesday on Mount Maunganui, perhaps the most pleasant for them was that, before the match, they managed to relieve pressure on themselves.
After the rash fell capturing and missed the opportunity in two previous matches, nerves could easily creep for games that were so important. Instead, England looked at different clothes on the field against India, and Shrubsole said Sophia Dunkley’s diving catch at the closing point to remove the captain Mithali Raj only with 1 was the key moment behind them.
“It was something we had a conversation about this whole tournament and we were not enough to put the finger on what it was,” Shrubsole said. “I think sometimes deploying, it looks like something is spreading and if you drop the first catch in the game, many things seem to leave there.