Though Kemp, whose last international appearance came during the 2025 Ashes whitewash, will not bowl in the 50-over series against New Zealand that begins on Sunday, she has been bowling in practice since January.<\/p>\n
She has worked closely with England fast-bowling coach Chris Liddle, developing new skills which she remains tight-lipped about, and did bowl in three of the five intra-squad matches England held in South Africa in March.<\/p>\n
It is expected she will bowl against the White Ferns and then India in the T20s which follow this three-match one-day international series, and in the T20 World Cup which begins on 12 June.<\/p>\n
“I just really enjoy having an impact on the game as much as I can,” said Kemp.<\/p>\n
“I love bowling. I don’t think I would ever give that up.”<\/p>\n
Kemp, who was carded at number nine on her international debut, also believes her injuries have allowed her to develop her batting. <\/p>\n
She made her first professional century last year and played a full season with Perth Scorchers last winter as a top-order batter. <\/p>\n
Earlier this year coach Charlotte Edwards, who has worked with Kemp at Southern Vipers, Hampshire, Southern Brave and now England, namechecked her when discussing the need for bowling all-rounders for the T20 World Cup. <\/p>\n
Kemp is also a left-hander, something England have not had consistently in their top order since Lydia Greenway retired in 2016.<\/p>\n
“I definitely have [improved as a batter],” Kemp said.<\/p>\n
“I have always spoken to Lottie and she has always helped me a lot around my batting, especially game situations. <\/p>\n
“I would like to think other people think it as well, but I have definitely grown into being an all-rounder.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though Kemp, whose last international appearance came during the 2025 Ashes whitewash, will not bowl in the 50-over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-657410","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\/657410","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=657410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}