Key occasions
We’re up in Leicester for at present’s recreation, the place so many England women’s ODIs have been hosted through the years. Mild day, 20 levels, says the climate readout.
Teams
Interesting! Alice Capsey will preserve wicket, which some folks (me) have been eager to see in the course of the World Cup, given how Amy Jones saved whacking the ball to catchers within the ring. Jones is rested, as are Sciver-Brunt and Danni Wyatt-Hodge, whereas Heather Knight has retired. Plenty of change, some probabilities for fringe gamers. For Ireland, the promising younger Alice Tector will get an opportunity to open the batting.
Ireland
Gaby Lewis *
Alice Tector
Amy Hunter +
Orla Prendergast
Rebecca Stokell
Leah Paul
Louise Little
Arlene Kelly
Cara Murray
Jane Maguire
Kia McCartney
England
Maia Bouchier
Sophia Dunkley
Jodi Grewcock
Alice Capsey +
Freya Kemp
Dani Gibson
Charlie Dean *
Mady Villiers
Issy Wong
Lauren Filer
Tilly Corteen-Coleman
England win the toss and bowl
Plenty of England gamers resting for this sequence, so Charlie Dean is captaining rather than Nat Sciver-Brunt. Dean has the coin fall her means and desires to chase. Ireland captain Gaby Lewis says she would have batted anyway, in time-honoured type.
Preamble
Geoff Lemon
Hello! It’s the first of September, which nonetheless counts as summer time within the north of Europe, and it’s time for cricket. Been an extended whereas since we had a women’s bilateral sequence in England this season, having come by way of the Hundred and earlier than that the T20 World Cup, however we’re again now on the bread and butter of the international recreation.
Ireland had a disappointing World Cup, although they did lastly get their first win on the match. Now it’s time to vary format to the one-day recreation. England might be taking a look at this sequence as an opportunity to tune up within the center format after an enormous concentrate on short-form hitting. There could also be some teething issues for each side.