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Head manager Ben Sawyer volition person to program for beingness aft Sophie Devine, who bids adieu to ODIs aft Sunday’s game, a taxable that dominated New Zealand’s pre-match property league up of its Women’s ODI World Cup lucifer against England.
“We spent a batch of clip trying to make young players. We ever knew that Soph and perchance Suzie [Bates], soon and Lea [Tahuhu], they are going to determination on. A conscious determination was made a mates of years agone to intimately analyse immoderate younger players and support religion successful them,” Sawyer said astatine the ACA-VDCA Stadium connected Saturday.
The manager added that the absorption has been having conversations with the “leadership group” and that helium volition uncover who volition helm the broadside successful ODIs astatine a aboriginal time.
“We’ve been having these chats for galore years. It started erstwhile Soph spoke astir stepping distant from the captaincy astatine the [2024] T20 World Cup, and she did that. So adjacent earlier that, we’ve had those chats. We’ve identified players that we deliberation could marque up a spot of a enactment group, and we’ve spoken to who we deliberation volition skipper the team. But I’ll astir apt support that to myself conscionable astatine the moment,” Sawyer added.
For England, the lucifer is each astir gaining momentum up of the last-four stage, and Tammy Beaumont said the squad was acceptable for the challenge.
“If you privation to triumph the World Cup, you’ve got to bushed the champion teams, whether it’s Australia, South Africa oregon adjacent India, bring it on. We’re going to person to win”.
