{"id":593888,"date":"2026-05-20T06:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593888\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:51:11","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-englands-questions-before-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593888\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 World Cup: England’s questions before tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

When considering the bigger picture, the most significant part of the one-day international series against New Zealand was the arrival of 18-year-old spinner Tilly Corteen-Coleman on the international stage.<\/p>\n

That she looked so at ease on debut in Chester-le-Street<\/a>, while able to admit she could have bowled better, was a major boost to Edwards, who has long talked up the spinner’s talents.<\/p>\n

Her emergence leaves Edwards with a difficult decision.<\/p>\n

Sophie Ecclestone, fitness permitting, still appears a guaranteed starter in England’s World Cup XI but who will join her in the spin attack?<\/p>\n

The other candidate is England’s third left-arm spinner, Linsey Smith.<\/p>\n

Smith, a shorter, slingier spinner compared to the more Ecclestone-like Corteen-Coleman, was arguably England’s best bowler at last year’s 50-over World Cup and her skills of bowling in the powerplay \u2013 she bowled more than half of her World Cup overs with the new ball last autumn and took seven of her 13 wickets in that phase \u2013 are arguably even more relevant in T20s than ODIs.<\/p>\n

It would be a big call to opt for the 18-year-old but Corteen-Coleman has done her cause no harm.<\/p>\n

She took 1-18 in four overs in a T20 when 427 runs were scored during England’s intra-squad camp in South Africa earlier this year.<\/p>\n

You could, of course, play all three left-armers, but that would probably mean leaving out vice-captain Charlie Dean and having a problematically long tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When considering the bigger picture, the most significant part of the one-day international series against New Zealand was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593888","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\/593888","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=593888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}