{"id":210232,"date":"2025-10-19T04:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210232\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:06:07","slug":"womens-world-cup-2025-charlotte-edwards-says-england-got-away-with-it-in-pakistan-washout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210232\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s World Cup 2025: Charlotte Edwards says England ‘got away with it’ in Pakistan washout"},"content":{"rendered":"

England coach Charlotte Edwards says they “got away with it” after the washout against Pakistan, but insists their best is still to come.<\/p>\n

Pakistan, who are bottom of the Women’s World Cup table, reduced England to 79-7 and then reached 34-0 in pursuit of 113 to win before rain rescued Nat Sciver-Brunt’s side from a shocking defeat.<\/a><\/p>\n

Edwards says they have reflected and moved on from that match in Colombo, but is hoping for an improved performance as they take on co-hosts India in a crunch fixture on Sunday. <\/p>\n

“We haven’t played our best cricket, which is think encouraging for us as a group and we get to play now against some of the best teams in the world,” Edwards told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“So I think we’re ready to take that challenge on. <\/p>\n

“We were outplayed against Pakistan and we know that, we’ve spoken about it. We did get away with it, but we’ve got to move on.”<\/p>\n

England are in a commanding position to reach the semi-finals, likely to only need one win from their last three<\/a> to confirm their spot, but their results so far have flattered them, particularly in the batting department. <\/p>\n

Since the dominant opening win against South Africa, England were 78-5 against Bangladesh, a standalone Sciver-Brunt masterclass ensured a comfortable win against Sri Lanka and then came the lucky escape against Pakistan. <\/p>\n

“We probably weren’t as adaptable as I’d have liked,” Edwards added.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s been some concerns around our batting, but I haven’t got many. When I came into this role it was about winning first and foremost, and the only game that we haven’t played well is against Pakistan.”<\/p>\n

The real test begins now. India have been inconsistent so far but are expecting a sellout crowd in Indore, and impressed beat England away from home this summer. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday is the tantalising grudge match, with England face defending champions Australia – the first time they have played one another since the Ashes humiliation at the start of this year before Edwards took charge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England coach Charlotte Edwards says they “got away with it” after the washout against Pakistan, but insists their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-210232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}