England are making their first appearance in an ICC final since the 50-over World Cup in 2022, where they were beaten by Australia, while their last global trophy win came at the same ground in 2017.<\/p>\n
Sciver-Brunt is one of three players involved who was in the squad for that tournament, alongside former captain Heather Knight and batter Danni Wyatt-Hodge.<\/p>\n
With the increasing professionalisation of women’s cricket in the nine years since and the record-breaking crowd numbers at this tournament, Sciver-Brunt says Sunday’s final could be a more significant occasion.<\/p>\n
“Where the game was in 2017 compared to where it is now, is a huge leap,” Sciver-Brunt, 33, added.<\/p>\n
“Tomorrow’s game will show that. We know it’s been a big deal, obviously we don’t really know how it’s looked or felt from the outside but certainly to play in it and to be part of the record-breaking crowds and some exciting games, yeah we have felt that [importance].” <\/p>\n
The England captain also played down the significance of Sunday’s opponents, considering their recent history against Australia – particularly the 16-0 Ashes thrashing at the beginning of 2025.<\/p>\n
“Our team has come a long way since that Ashes tour,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I think everyone knows what tomorrow is about, a World Cup final at home at Lord’s, the occasion is already massive.<\/p>\n
“There’s not really been any talk about the Ashes or proving people wrong from that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England are making their first appearance in an ICC final since the 50-over World Cup in 2022, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-525194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}