Auckland Stand-in captain Amy Satterthwaite on Sunday known as New Zealands one-wicket loss to England as “gut-wrenching”, admitting that their batting lacked a killer instinct and has let them down in the ongoing 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.
Satterthwaite, one of the experienced players in the team, took over the reins from usual skipper Sophie Devine after she injured her back while batting and was unable to field before Satterthwaite’s wife Lea Tahuhu pulled up with a hamstring injury.
In their absence, Frankie Mackay stepped up and took career-best figures of four for 34 to pull England back into a tight contest when chasing a sub-par 204 after New Zealand had suffered their own batting collapse, losing eight for 69.
Nat Sciver’s 61 from 108 balls proved crucial as No. 11 Anya Shrubsole went on to hit the winning runs to earn another last-gasp victory for defending champions England that kept their own World Cup hopes alive. The loss has put hosts New Zealand on the brink of being knocked out of the tournament.
“It is never a nice position to be in when you’re relying on other results and I think coming into today, we felt like we still had it in our control. It’s pretty gut-wrenching to get that close and not quite get over the line and feel like you’re standing on the edge of the cliff, borderline out of the competition,” stated Satterthwaite within the post-match press convention.
With Tahuhu and Devine off the sphere, Brooke Halliday was known as on to bowl, taking her maiden worldwide wicket to dismiss Amy Jones earlier than Sophia Dunkley’s departure sparked a collapse of 5 wickets for 20 runs.
Despite transferring only one wicket away from a well-known win, the White Ferns couldn’t recover from the road and Satterthwaite cited the lack of two key gamers and their lower-order batting as key points.
Notably, New Zealand had put up totals of over 250 every time they batted towards India of their current bilateral sequence earlier than the World Cup however they might not step up as soon as the massive match arrived.
“The irritating half is I actually felt that we turned a nook towards India within the sequence earlier than this match as a gaggle and we began to place some constant totals on the board round that kind of 260/270 [mark] and everybody was enjoying their position beautifully,” she said.
“We’ve obviously had some things not go our way today with the likes of Sophie’s injury, we’ve obviously lost Lauren Down coming into this tournament. But I still back the people that were in this line-up to produce bigger scores than what we have been and I think sometimes we possibly get a little bit ahead of ourselves and think we need more than we do,” she added.
The left-handed batter additionally talked in regards to the lack of partnerships within the ongoing World Cup.
“If I evaluate from the India sequence to this marketing campaign, it’s the partnerships. Against India we talked so much about producing massive partnerships: 100-run and match-winning partnerships, and if we glance again throughout our World Cup video games, I don’t know the numbers on prime of my head, however there can’t be too many 80-90-100-plus partnerships.
“We most likely received began and didn’t actually have that form of killer intuition, and like I stated, take it to these massive partnerships that may have put us in a very sturdy place to permit our center to decrease order to actually launch,” she said.
“We’ll reflect on the tournament at some point and if we’re honest, batting is the thing that let us down the most and with the ball really tried to keep us in the tournament and we fought extremely hard and we can be really proud of that. But putting up scores of 200-220-odd against world-class opposition unfortunately is not enough and we needed to find a way to get bigger totals on the board,” she added.
Asked in regards to the replace on Leah and Sophie’s damage, Satterthwaite stated that she hasn’t spoken to them very a lot after the sport.
“I haven’t spoken to them very a lot after the sport, I believe each of them are common however we’ll see within the subsequent couple of days and we’re lucky we’ve received 5 days earlier than our subsequent sport, so we are able to see how they’re earlier than that final one,” she stated.
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