England’s men have previously held bonding trips in the build-up to away Ashes series.<\/p>\n
Before the successful Ashes tour of Australia in 2010-11, England spent five days in Germany, when James Anderson had his rib broken boxing against fellow pace bowler Chris Tremlett.<\/p>\n
Three years later, a mock surveillance exercise in Staffordshire was the beginning of a 5-0 humiliation down under.<\/p>\n
On this occasion, Dean said England’s women were involved in “a bit of running, burpees, press-ups and getting yelled at”.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old added: “It was just a different training environment. Something that pushed us but also brought us closer together.<\/p>\n
“Everyone really bought into it. We had a calm day on the Thursday, then Friday morning felt really different – running down to join the troops.<\/p>\n
“It was a bit of a shock to the system and a few giggles were erased pretty quickly once we got a talking to. We knew this was something we had to crack on with.”<\/p>\n
Off-spinner Dean will become the 20th woman to lead England in an ODI after all-rounder Sciver-Brunt was ruled out of the entire series.<\/p>\n
The captain’s absence has been described as precautionary and she is expected to return for the three-match T20 series against the White Ferns, beginning on 20 May.<\/p>\n
“Nat’s good,” said Dean. “She’s with us in Durham doing little bits of training. Her injury isn’t too bad.<\/p>\n
“It feels good we can work so closely and hopefully make that transition really smooth.<\/p>\n
“Captaining these ODIs feels like brilliant timing to get me that little bit of experience before the World Cup arrives.”<\/p>\n
With Sciver-Brunt injured, Alice Capsey ill, Tammy Beaumont left out of the squad, Sophia Dunkley rested and Danni Wyatt-Hodge absent because of the imminent arrival of her first child, the England XI in Durham will have a fresh look.<\/p>\n
Emma Lamb could join Amy Jones at the top of the order while batters Jodi Grewcock and Kira Chathli, along with 18-year-old spinner Tilly Corteen-Coleman, are all in the squad and may be in line for England debuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s men have previously held bonding trips in the build-up to away Ashes series. Before the successful Ashes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574997","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=574997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}