Linsey Smith believes England should be at their greatest to beat South Africa on Monday of their second Ladies’s T20 World Cup match, stay on Sky Sports activities Cricket.
Sluggish left-arm bowler Smith was in spectacular type as England opened the event with a 21-run win over Bangladesh on Saturday, taking two wickets for 11 runs.
Monday’s encounter will invoke painful recollections for England of the 2023 T20 World Cup after they misplaced by six wickets to hosts South Africa within the semi-finals.
Smith mentioned: “It’s obviously spoken about quite a fair bit that game. I think the girls took a lot of learning from it.
“We’re simply trying ahead to taking them on once more in a World Cup. Clearly, they’d a extremely robust win the opposite day and we will need to be at our greatest once more to take the struggle to them and hopefully get one other win.”
South Africa thrashed West Indies by 10 wickets of their opening recreation in Dubai, whereas Monday’s recreation shall be in Sharjah, the place England confronted Bangladesh on a sluggish pitch.
“I think obviously Bangladesh showed that the way they bowled, took a lot of pace off and boundaries were really hard to come by,” Smith mentioned.
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Highlights of the Ladies’s T20 World Cup match between England and Bangladesh
“We knew that obviously it was quite slow and low and just tried to keep the stumps in play and try and put pressure on them that way.”
Sussex and Northern Superchargers bowler Smith final appeared at a T20 World Cup for England within the West Indies in 2018 and is relishing her probability at resurrecting her worldwide profession.
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England’s Amy Jones discusses the energy in depth the group holds with spin bowlers and believes it may play an important half within the Ladies’s T20 World Cup
She added: “It was obviously six years ago now I think, so a long time. I took a bit of time away from the England setup, which I think just helped me grow and do a lot of self-reflection and think about how I wanted to be and how I wanted to play the game.
“It was robust, however I knew I all the time needed to get again in an England shirt and sort of do myself a little bit of justice.
“I felt like I didn’t play very well six years ago so it was nice to obviously get another chance to do that in a World Cup.”
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James Cole runs via all of the speaking factors and key gamers forward of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup within the United Arab Emirates – stay on Sky Sports activities from Thursday October 3
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