An emotional England captain Heather Knight admitted she was preventing again the tears following her facet’s newest defeat which leaves Australia on target for an unprecedented 16-0 Ashes clear sweep.
England slumped to a 72-run loss within the third and ultimate T20 on the Adelaide Oval to path Australia 12-0 with one Take a look at match to observe on the MCG subsequent week.
Beth Mooney scored a superb 94 as England have been set a goal of 163, however they have been lowered to 39 for 5 after which dismissed for simply 90 runs, with solely captain Knight (40) and Danni Wyatt-Hodge (17) making double figures.
Requested how she was feeling after her facet’s newest setback, Knight advised BBC Radio 5 Dwell Sports activities Additional: “I’m attempting to not cry, you at all times strive to try this. I’m gutted. It has been a disappointing tour.
“I’m pissed off and it was not an excellent efficiency. We felt it was a complete we may chase, however the wickets value us and we weren’t capable of get any kind of momentum.
“We have now competed at occasions (throughout the sequence) and fought arduous, nevertheless it has been a brutal tour thus far and we have to study and be higher and keep in mind these moments to ensure this doesn’t occur once more.”
Avoiding Whitewash
By way of runs, the defeat marked England’s second heaviest within the T20 format. Knight’s facet will now journey from Adelaide to Melbourne for a one-off Take a look at within the hope of avoiding an embarrassing whitewash.
Knight continued: “We are going to preserve preventing and we have to draw a line underneath the white-ball stuff and focus on the Take a look at match. We are going to view it as a one-off match to get one thing from this Tour.”
Requested in regards to the prospect of a clear sweep, Australia’s stand-in captain Tahlia McGrath mentioned: “The following recreation goes to be an enormous problem for each groups, chucking on the whites, 4 days, totally different methods and totally different techniques.
“However the MCG for a day-night match, because it was introduced, has been a match that everybody has been actually enthusiastic about.”
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