England Women Cricket Team News

England’s newly appointed women cricket team’s head coach Jon Lewis has showered praise on the side saying they are ready to fly and his job is just to take the handbrake off. He further added that having no experience in women’s cricket will not impact his performance in the role.

After the demise of Shane Warne on Friday due to a suspected heart attack several former and current cricketers have paid tribute to Australian cricketing great. ICC Women’s World Cup is going on currently and Australia’s Alana king tried to recreate the famous ‘ball of the century’ bowled by Warne.

Owing to the emergence of a new novel Coronavirus case in Auckland, the city has been sent into a level 3 alert and that has forced a change in the venue with the Third T20I shifted to Wellington instead. Both the New Zealand men's and women's team will now be staying back in Wellington. 

England's centrally contracted players, across men's and women's teams, have agreed to take a 20% pay-cut for the next three months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. England's centrally contracted players have held a number of discussions this week about their own response to the pandemic.

There may be no training nets to attend but England captains Joe Root and Heather Knight are still following personalised programmes despite uncertainty surrounding the start of the season. Last week, owing to the ongoing crisis, the ECB announced a seven-week delay to the start of the 2020 season.