However, even if Sciver-Brunt is fit for the World Cup opener against Sri Lanka on 12 June at Edgbaston, she is likely to be lacking match practice – she has played only twice since the Women’s Premier League ended in January.<\/p>\n
After the series against India, England have two World Cup warm-up matches – against Australia in Cardiff on 8 June, and against India at the same venue on 10 June.<\/p>\n
Opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge will also miss the series against New Zealand, with her wife due to give birth to their first child.<\/p>\n
As a result, Hampshire’s Maia Bouchier and Warwickshire’s Charis Pavely have been added to the squad as cover.<\/p>\n
Dean will become the 11th woman to captain England in a T20 international when she leads the side against the Black Ferns on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old took charge for the one-day series, before which Dean said she expected Sciver-Brunt to be back for the T20s.<\/p>\n
Asked if she was ready to be captain at the World Cup if required, Dean said: “Captaining in the ODIs feels like brilliant timing, to get me that little bit of experience before the World Cup arrives.<\/p>\n
“All being well, Nat will be perfectly fine. I have no doubts should anything arise, I feel like these games will grow my confidence even more to do the job at hand.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, even if Sciver-Brunt is fit for the World Cup opener against Sri Lanka on 12 June at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592521","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\/592521","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=592521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}