England Girls had gained the each ODI and T20I leg of the Multi-format match of the Ashes 2023 not too long ago on their residence floor.

Former England Captain Nasser Hussain was impressed with England’s Girls tied the match within the latest Ashes Sequence in opposition to Australia, and says they have to proceed to evolve in the event that they need to attain newer heights and shut the gaps with the Girls’s Cricket World Cup Champions.

There have been many optimistic indicators for England’s aspect and Hussain has challenged them to construct their efficiency and proceed to enhance earlier than the subsequent Ashes sequence which begins in 2025.

Nasser Hussain on England Girls’s Cricket Staff

Hussain had talks with host Sanjana Ganesan within the ICC overview, and mentioned, “England have gotten some good younger gamers coming by means of, though truly in our Ashes sequence, it was the senior gamers like Natalie Sciver-Brunt, Kate Cross and Danni Wyatt that completely put in performances.”

“You’d be a idiot to say, ‘Oh, that’s it. Australia are coming again to the pack’. “I don’t assume they’re doing that. Different nations must hold enjoying catch-up cricket with the Australian girls’s workforce as they’re one of many biggest sporting groups of all time.”

Nat Sciver-Brunt was named England’s participant of the sequence on the Ashes. The spinner Sophie Ecclestone had scalped 10 wickets throughout the one-off Check and proved to be a troublesome and unpredictable bowler for the opponent batters.

Nat Sciver-Brunt was additionally been nominated for the ICC Participant of the Month. The pair dominate the present MRF tires ICC girls’s Participant Rankings, with Sciver-Brunt holding the spot for each ODI batters and all-rounders and Ecclestone turns into the No.1 bowler in ODI and T20I cricket.

“Nat Sciver-Brunt is only a high-class participant, a high-class particular person and, in huge moments, even in dropping huge moments in opposition to Australia on the 50-over World Cup and 20-over World Cup within the closing, she is smashing it all over the place,” Hussain mentioned.

“She by no means is aware of when to surrender. She has lengthy levers. She has nice consciousness of the sphere and the place to hit a few of her slog sweeps over extensive mid-wicket. An awesome all-rounder and an excellent cricketer.

“And Sophie Ecclestone has been there for England…she’s solely nonetheless younger.

“She could be very correct. By no means bowls dangerous deliveries. In red-ball cricket, she will be able to go previous the surface edge. In white-ball cricket, typically folks play for the flip. However slightly bit like Rashid Khan or one thing, it’s truly stump-to-stump LBW and bowled in white-ball cricket.

She brings within the stumps in white-ball cricket and she will be able to bat as nicely and she or he is superb within the discipline.

“She took some good catches, some very high quality catches in that Ashes sequence. So she’s creating slightly bit like Nat Sciver-Brunt into a real all-rounder.”

Hussain thinks Alice Capsey, Sophia Dunkley, and Lauren Filer would be the subsequent era who might assist England to boost and believes their publicity in home competitions will speed up the method.

“We’ve acquired The Hundred…right here in England and it’s going to be so necessary for his or her progress and their growth to maintain bettering,” Hussain famous.

“Hopefully a few of them, hopefully, the WPL (Girls’s Premier League in India) will hold choosing up some younger English gamers to play in several circumstances as nicely.

“I believe English girls’s cricket is in a really wholesome place due to The Hundred. As a result of they’re getting that publicity to enjoying in opposition to a number of the finest gamers on this planet. (India pair) Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur are over (in England) to play.

“Whenever you’re enjoying in opposition to the very best on a regular basis, you study from them and also you’re in the identical dressing room as them, that’s what’s actually good about these franchise tournaments, to get in the identical dressing room and see how they function and apply.

I believe that’d be the good advantage of franchise tournaments for a few of our younger girls cricketers.”