England head coach Lisa Keightley admitted “the buck lies with me” after their third straight defeat left the defending champions getting ready to elimination from the Ladies’s World Cup.
England will once more be left to rue fielding errors, permitting Laura Wolvaardt three lifelines on her technique to what proved to be a match-winning 77.
Heather Knight’s aspect additionally dropped Deandra Dottin in the course of the earlier defeat towards the West Indies, amongst different errors, however Keightley didn’t have a solution as to why the errors have crept into the crew.
“We haven’t actually put our finger on it. Now we have fielded fairly effectively all through the Ashes and took much more possibilities than we’ve as we speak,” the England head coach mentioned.
“The final two days we skilled rather well and the ladies have been up and about placing a number of effort in and we simply haven’t acquired the rewards within the video games when it issues.
“I don’t actually know to make certain, it’s one thing that we’ll have to consider once we evaluate after the World Cup.”
After defeats to Australia and the West Indies within the first two matches of the event, England now require different outcomes to go their technique to have any likelihood of qualifying for a semi-final spot.
Keightley assumed duty for England’s faltering title defence.
“As a coach I take an enormous quantity of duty, it’s as much as me to drive the crew and get the wins on the board, that’s the job of the coach and we’re attempting actually laborious – the teaching workers and myself – to get the gamers up and about.
“We don’t should do an excessive amount of, the gamers are fairly gutted they usually have been gutted after the final match and wished to bounce again and have been unable to do it.
“However the duty and the buck lies with me and I’m completely satisfied to cop that, shifting ahead – I don’t really feel any extra strain than what the gamers really feel and I’m no extra disillusioned than the gamers.
“We got here into this World Cup to play higher than we’ve and we haven’t and it’s been irritating, for myself and the teaching workers and irritating for the gamers.
“We only for some cause haven’t clicked and we’re discovering it actually laborious to take action, however we’ll hold combating and we’ll hold coaching laborious in between and speaking to the gamers, it is going to be nice to bounce again and are available out towards India and put the strain on them.”
Marizanne Kapp completed with 5 wickets from her 10 overs in addition to making an important 32 with the bat to assist information South Africa over the road and mentioned she urged her team-mates to not assault too early.
“During the last yr we’ve chased effectively and after I was out within the center and we wanted 80 runs, only for the batters if we will take it as deep as potential and never try to go too early we’ll recover from the road,” the all-rounder mentioned.
“Beneath lights it was approaching actually properly. Earlier within the day we noticed the slower ball sitting within the wickets and below lights that took that away, however the batters in there simply wanted to not go too early.”
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