Although England were always expected to progress from Group Two, the manner of their performances has still been impressive.<\/p>\n
They racked up 200 or more against Sri Lanka and Scotland, scored an equally impressive 186-7 on a tricky pitch against West Indies at Lord’s, and romped home with 2.4 overs to spare in a chase of 164 against the White Ferns as Danni Wyatt-Hodge made an unbeaten 89.<\/p>\n
“The goal was to win the group,” Edwards said.<\/p>\n
“To go through unbeaten is really pleasing. Our batting has been particularly powerful and a real positive for us.<\/p>\n
“I thought we bowled really well tonight on a good pitch. You saw how good that pitch was.<\/p>\n
“We seem to be getting better with each game which is really good going into the business end of the tournament.”<\/p>\n
England will not find out their semi-final opponents until Group One concludes on Sunday, but India or South Africa currently appear the most likely.<\/p>\n
They also do not know whether they will play on Tuesday at 14:30 BST or Thursday at 18:30 BST.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s match has been arranged to suit Indian TV and India will play in that match should they qualify.<\/p>\n
It means England will play on Thursday if anyone but India finishes second in Group One, but be switched to Tuesday if India take second spot.<\/p>\n
“We obviously know now with the teams we are likely to play in the semi-finals, one are world champions of the ODIs [India] and one have played in every World Cup final for the last three years [South Africa] so it is not going to be easy,” Edwards said.<\/p>\n
“But we are going in with the most confidence we have ever done into a semi-final and with a lot of belief.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although England were always expected to progress from Group Two, the manner of their performances has still been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-764762","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\/764762","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=764762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}