Female ash: Change looks inevitable for England after a tour of hell ended up in a 16-0 series against Australia | Current news
Outbatted, outfield, surpassed, surpassed.
It is a brutal but certainly fair assessment of English campaign Torrid ashes while they have become The first side to be tested 16-0 since the multi-format series was founded in 2013.
They arrived in Australia with dreams that they had returned the trophy, but the tour turned into a complete nightmare.
For all interviews about England – a bizarre conversation a lot of time – from the gap between themselves and the best women’s team on the planet that has closed, a huge result and the performances they have entered throughout the evidence have proven that they have expanded rather than decreased.
Maybe, as the head coach said under the fire of Jon Lewis, England “knocked a bear”, returning from 6-0 down to withdraw 8-8 at home to Australia in 2023, because the southern stars were ruthless in extending their undefeated Running the ash series up to six.
England also found itself 6-0 in 2025, but this time there was no expensive. Australia followed a purely reconciliation in a one -day international leg with another in the T20 International’s before continuing in the test match of the series by a bow.
After defeating such a size, the changes must surely be on the way to England in some form. Can Lewis and Captain Heather Knight really continue? Deep down do they have appetite?
Once the ash becomes a little less raw and the examination is carried out, decisions will have to be made.
Australia better but England made an abundance of errors
Australia Away is the biggest challenge in the women’s crisis – just behind Australia anywhere else – and even if England did everything right, they may still be beaten.
Their opponents are better than they are. That’s simple. But England was so wrong in the field and is probably from him.
The words of players are not far outside Australia sometimes encountered misconceptions, while the rejection of Sophie Ecclestone is obvious to talk to Alex Hartley at an interview for broadcasting after the latter questioned the fitness of England last year by the incapacitated side of the criticism at least in some districts.
Lewis’ comments about Australia is superior to athletic because of its way of life outdoors and sunny weather He can hold the element of truth, but it was unusual to say loudly, especially when he added that this was not why England lost the series.
In fact, it was probably one of the many reasons why they lost the series, with the wrong fields, gave up the chances and failed border savings prevailing, compared to electric efforts seen from Australia, As Ash Gardner is an extraordinary predation on the rope in the third game and Georgia Voll -O’s jump in the last T20.
The English rivals are the water supply of new depths on the second day of the test match of the pink ball on the iconic MCG, because seven mostly routine catches collapsed. He made a painful view.
Australian superiority in energy and industry also portrayed Beth Mooney as she hit as an indestructible opener in the last T20 ran 11 Twus. The occupation in Crease England did not happen again.
They also could not reconcile Australia’s ability to deliver key moments, a worrying trait that – perhaps worse than their players who were not often enough in a home crown – made Knight accusations in recent ash and World Cup series.
They were on the verge of reaching the finals of the World 2023 World Cup, but then succumbed to South Africa.
Then they looked at the knockout stages of the version 2024. Before they retired against West Indies, throwing catches and appearing without a rudder, and the knight from the field was injured.
England found wishes in ashes but there is hope
England had its chances and in female ash.
In the first ODO, they were first 91-2 only for Knight and Nat Sciver-Brunt to open to Deep Midwiket in the intervals of two passes. Amy Jones was then captured and concealed after renovation at 145-4, and eventually she eventually rolled on the visiting side.
In the second Odu, England played too many balls and is gifted gifted, while the enchanted Jones managed to take off a single of the final ball of 48. With 22 runs needed, which led to not discarded 11 Lauren Bell on the next delivery . The game is gone.
The English smart cricket were not there. This was apparently again in the first day of the test match with Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Sophia Duncley to lose their shots after they entered the 20th, fell to Alan King’s high quality kindergartens.
The final T20 was perhaps the most difficult hour of all, because England fell silent to 90 of all. A terrible release broke a team without trust and ideas against Spin. Playing tourists in Australian slow bowlers was shocking, and 40 Hickeke fell on that bowling style.
All of this left Lewis in an insecure position. The terrible ash series, for men and women, rarely end up without a coaching change. Chris Silverwood got boot after a male breaking in 2021/2022, while Mark Robinson left his role with English women after 12-4 walks at home in Australia in 2019.
Lewis wants to continue – “I didn’t finish the job I came here. I feel the right guy to do it” – and Robinson thinks he may have to give him the opportunity, saying TNT Sports: “Sometimes we cheer people out of chances to improve and grow.”
Despite this humble ashes, the job from England is still attractive.
Ecclestone, Duncley, Bell, Freya Kemp, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sarah Glenn, Ryana Macdonald-Gay and Lauren Fileler should form a core of that party for the next five years.
The home game is also developing and this new structure should increase the depth of players. With multiple crisletters on full -time contracts that press those who are already in England XI, we hope it will remove any element of the Saucece that may have entered.
This is something Australia does not suffer, such is a bulging talent talent that is available to them after strong investment in setting up.
What next if Lewis and Knight go?
So if Lewis is not given the opportunity to “finish the job”, then who will?
Charlotte Edwards, winner of the ash and World Cup as the Captain of England, collected a movement of a trophy at the domestic level: a hundred with the southern brave, women’s premier league with the Mumbaj Indians, Oodles of Silverware with the now -defective southern Vipers.
Edwards played a role in progressing Kemp, Bell, Dean, Duncley and Maia Bouchier in Vipers and/or locks, although she was recently appointed Chief Coach Hampshire Women, so she could be cunning from that contract.
If Edwards is an apparent candidate as a coach, the captainable opportunities – if Knight leaves or gets chopping off the work he has done since he took over Edwards in 2016 – they are not crowded.
Sciver-Brunt is the best player of England, but has not flourished as a captain at the Commonwealth 2022 games or that west indies nasty at last year’s T20 World Cup.
Ecclestone and Dean are regular and, still only in the mid-20s, could take on a role for a long time.
They both have experience that led in a hundred – Dean to London Spirit when Knight was injured and Ecclestone in Manchester’s originals – but that would still be the jump of faith.
Hollie Armitage, who played three OPE last September, and so many T20 against Ireland, may be an external bet after impressing the roles of captains in the country, including for the northern superchargers in a hundred.
Home T20 World Cup 2026. The reason is to extend Knight to his mandate as a captain and it would be wrong to say that the defeat in the ashes in England was until the work she did as a skipper. There were far major factors in the game.
But one look at how Joe Root – another English Stalwart was never able to win a series of ash as a leader – he enjoyed his crown since he could have tried Knight to do so.
Whatever England did, whether coaches and captains who were fired or were dismissed, is clearly a statement of a mission, which Knight delivered after it extinguished in the third T20, clear.
“We have to learn, be better and remember these moments to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”
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