England head coach Jon Lewis is decided to unseat “commonplace bearers” Australia on the Girls’s T20 World Cup as he begins to grapple with the largest job of his profession.
Lewis isn’t any stranger to the worldwide area, capped by his nation in all three codecs as a participant earlier than main the boys’s Below-19 setup and dealing alongside the likes of James Anderson and Stuart Broad because the ECB’s tempo bowling lead for nearly two years.
He was a key a part of Chris Silverwood’s backroom group throughout final winter’s Ashes, when Australia eased to a 4-0 win, and left the boys’s sport in December to take over from Lisa Keightley.
The id of England’s fundamental rivals is a well-known one and their dominance much more pronounced, with Australia’s girls profitable the final three World Cup tournaments and holding the Ashes urn for the final 4 sequence.
“That is 100 per cent, for positive, my largest job to date,” Lewis informed the PA information company.
“As a abilities coach within the males’s set-up you’ve gotten affect, you’ve gotten a say, however the selections aren’t yours, they’re another person’s. This can be a a lot higher problem for me.
“Australia are positively the usual bearers within the girls’s sport, they’re the benchmark group. They’ve achieved fantastically effectively since 2017, once we final gained a World Cup, they usually have dominated.
“We’ll go into this match with Australia as favourites and that’s proper, they need to be. However with favouritism comes the calls for and the pressures to maintain on profitable.”
England start their marketing campaign on February 11, dealing with the West Indies in Paarl, having overwhelmed the identical opponents 8-0 on combination on their current white-ball tour of the Caribbean.
Whereas the on-field problem was flimsier than anticipated, Lewis took his time to take the measure of his new group and believes there’s room for even essentially the most established figures within the group to succeed in recent heights.
“I believe all of them have ranges to discover, when it comes to how they play the sport. The newer gamers are clearly thrilling, with excessive potential, however the senior group is one that also has lots of untapped potential.
“Heather Knight, our captain, is an extremely gifted participant and a very good chief, however I see extra in her tank when it comes to how artistic she might be, how unconventionally she will play and captain.
“There’s Nat Sciver-Brunt, probably the greatest gamers on the earth, and he or she’s somebody who may go even additional with the tempo she will play at. She will dominate groups. At occasions I really feel these two gamers have felt actually accountable for the outcomes of the group, so I’ve informed them it’s my job to lift the usual of everybody to allow them to be much more expressive.
“In the event you can simply free a few of their minds up, make them realise they don’t have to stay to the way it’s at all times been achieved, the expertise we now have is so ample. This group can do something they need to. They won’t realise it but, however it’s my job to get that out of them.”