Dunkley’s retention upon Wyatt-Hodge’s return was a clear sign of England’s thinking.<\/p>\n
Alice Capsey, who made a match-winning 74 not out against New Zealand last month when standing in for Wyatt-Hodge, was pushed down to number four.<\/p>\n
Discussion over the England top order’s ability to hit boundaries was dampened by Freya Kemp’s hitting in the win in Bristol on Saturday and the line-up is likely to remain for Tuesday’s series decider in Taunton.<\/p>\n
Dunkley also made a 51-ball century as opener during England’s intra-squad series in South Africa in March.<\/p>\n
A further decision will need to be made, however, once captain Nat Sciver-Brunt recovers from her calf injury, possibly in time for next week’s official warm-ups against India and Australia.<\/p>\n
Those are England’s final fixtures before the World Cup begins on 12 June.<\/p>\n
“I’ve opened the batting with Sophia Dunkley for a number of years now and we all know how good Sophia is at taking the game on from ball one at her best,” Wyatt-Hodge said.<\/p>\n
“It’s not an easy thing to do, especially when the ball’s swinging and moving off the pitch.<\/p>\n
“Dunks has been so successful at the top and we’ve put some good partnerships on together, so I’m really looking forward to getting out there with her tomorrow [Tuesday] and in the World Cup as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunkley’s retention upon Wyatt-Hodge’s return was a clear sign of England’s thinking. Alice Capsey, who made a match-winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615746","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\/615746","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=615746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}