England leg-spinner Sarah Glenn believes her facet want to stay cautious of Scotland of their Girls’s T20 World Cup group match on Sunday regardless of their opponents having already been eradicated from the event.
Debutants Scotland have misplaced all three of their video games in Group B, to Bangladesh, the West Indies and South Africa, which means they already know they can’t progress to the semi-finals forward of their ultimate match in opposition to England in Sharjah, reside on Sky Sports activities Cricket at 11am on Sunday.
England, in the meantime, are massive favourites to progress with two wins from two as far as certainly one of solely two unbeaten sides within the event alongside holders Australia.
“With the games they have, they’ll want to put a stamp on it,” mentioned Glenn of Scotland in an interview with Sky Sports activities Information forward of the match.
“Clearly, it is their first World Cup they usually’ve obtained a category set of gamers as properly, they usually’ll need to play actually good cricket and we have simply obtained to be able to adapt to fight that.
“They’ll come at us quite hard, so we just need to hopefully just be ready and enjoy playing it.”
Matches between England and Scotland in any sport invariably entice consideration and Glenn added: “I assume it could be pure to be [billed as] the battle of us two, however Scotland are most likely much like us in that they may simply need to be specializing in themselves and the way they play their cricket.
“Hopefully, it will be a good competitive game and it’ll be an entertaining game of cricket.”
Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant
Highlights of the Girls’s T20 World Cup match between England and Bangladesh
Can England preserve momentum from good begin in World Cup pursuit?
England’s 100 per cent begin to the event has put them within the driving seat in Group B, with the ultimate matches in opposition to Scotland this weekend after which the West Indies in Dubai on Tuesday to come back to e book their place within the October 17-18 semi-finals.
“It’s obviously how we wanted to start,” mentioned Glenn, who has taken a wicket in every of England’s two wins to date.
“We have just been taking each game as it comes and to get two wins on the board is really special, especially in the first game where the conditions were quite tough and we were trying to adapt to them.
“However within the second sport I feel we actually confirmed our talent and our physicality as properly, working actually exhausting between the wickets and issues like that. So it has been begin from us and hopefully we will take the momentum ahead.”
Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant
Watch the second that England beat South Africa within the Girls’s T20 World Cup as Nat Sciver-Brunt sealed a seven-wicket win
Reigning champions Australia, the winners of six of the eight Girls’s T20 World Cups, having made an ominously unbeaten begin too, and Glenn acknowledged: “They have been a class side for a long time.
“The best way they play their cricket is inspiring to us by way of the requirements we need to maintain striving in direction of, and as a workforce I feel now we have been constructing into that actually properly.
“We have shown our skills the last summer, we had an unbeaten English home summer, so we have been ticking along really nicely, but there are plenty of other class sides in this tournament as well.
“Clearly, Australia are actually up there as properly and are going to be a extremely powerful workforce to beat.”
England had been the inaugural winners of the event again in 2009 once they beat New Zealand by six wickets within the ultimate at Lord’s, however a follow-up victory has proved elusive amid Australia’s dominance, with three runner-up finishes (2012, 2014, 2018) and three defeats in semi-finals (2016, 2020, 2023).
Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant
Highlights of the Girls’s T20 World Cup match between England and South Africa
So might Heather Knight’s facet make the distinction this time round?
“We have got a really nicely balanced side, and a lovely mixture between experienced players and really young, talented players,” mentioned Glenn.
“Obviously our minds could easily drift to ‘oh, that would be so nice to win a World Cup’ and things like that, that is natural, that is going to happen – our minds are going to wander.
“However for us we have simply been specializing in our personal focus and, whether or not it is trying again on the previous or sooner or later, we have simply centered on being actually current, taking every sport because it goes and the way we need to play our cricket, which is hopefully to encourage and entertain individuals.”
Watch every match of the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup live on Sky Sports, concluding with the final in Dubai on Sunday October 20. You may also stream the event and extra with NOW
