Kemp played in that dismal Ashes defeat, but soon after her back troubles returned. <\/p>\n
It meant months of frustration, but time to work on her batting. She played a full summer for Hampshire, solely contributing with willow in hand.<\/p>\n
Gibson, meanwhile, missed the Ashes entirely. She, too, had a back injury and the inability to bowl allowed more time to work on her batting through the winter. <\/p>\n
In particular, she looked to improve her off-side game – and in the final over on Saturday she twice slammed Scotland’s Priyanaz Chatterji through the covers.<\/p>\n
“I was very leg-side dominant in the past so trying to get through the off side was a work on and it is going very well,” Gibson told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
If Lauren Bell and Linsey Smith are England’s tall and short, spin and seam, bowling yin and yang, Kemp and Gibson – who were both signed in The Hundred for more than \u00a3100,000 – are similarly complementary.<\/p>\n
Rangy left-hander Kemp hits cleanly straight or, as shown with her two sixes against Scotland, over mid-wicket.<\/p>\n
The right-handed Gibson can crunch the ball straight, but is more adept in finding boundaries behind square.<\/p>\n
It makes their partnership horrible for bowlers.<\/p>\n
“Kempy’s got so much power down the ground and Gibbo can hit square,” Dunkley said.<\/p>\n
“They’re a great combination and to have a partnership like that at the end gives us as a top order a lot of confidence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kemp played in that dismal Ashes defeat, but soon after her back troubles returned. It meant months of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650089","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\/650089","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=650089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}