hammered South Africa in their Women’s World Cup opener on Friday,<\/a> Dean says they are becoming “tougher” from the experiences.<\/p>\n“We’ve had challenges, and the way you get around those is with resilience,” Dean told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“We had bit of scrutiny on us and that can only be a good thing – it means people are watching.”<\/p>\n
Dean added England are adopting a “tougher” and “really positive” approach she feels is helping the side get their “mojo” back.<\/p>\n
In the Ashes fallout England were criticised for their fitness and attitudes on and off the field, but the 10-wicket thrashing of the Proteas felt like a statement win under the leadership of Sciver-Brunt and coach Charlotte Edwards. <\/p>\n
Linsey Smith starred with three wickets, while Dean took 2-14 on a Guwahati pitch that offered plenty of assistance for the spinners, but Dean is cautious about getting carried away after such a comprehensive victory.<\/p>\n
“Bowling a team out for under 100 is something that you always strive to do, but you never really think it’s going to happen,” added Dean.<\/p>\n
“So to start like that in a World Cup is fantastic but we are being really objective with our reflections – there’s always things that you can do better. It’s not going to happen that quickly every game.”<\/p>\n
England take on Bangladesh – who they have only faced once in a one-day international at the last World Cup in 2022 – in their second game in Guwahati on Tuesday, before travelling to Colombo for fixtures against Pakistan and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England spinner Charlie Dean says the increase in scrutiny the team has faced since a difficult winter is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-193500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}