{"id":68568,"date":"2025-08-15T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68568\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:36:06","slug":"edwards-believes-england-remain-on-track-for-world-cup-glory-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68568\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards believes England remain on track for World Cup glory | ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England have two players holding onto the No.1 spot on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/rankings\/batting\/womens\/odi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC Women&#8217;s ODI Player Rankings<\/a>, with skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt (batting) and spinner Sophie Ecclestone (bowling) both currently rated as the best in the world in their specific profession and the duo likely to play a major role in the side&#8217;s race to this year&#8217;s World Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards suggested the pair were in good shape ahead of England&#8217;s World Cup tilt and said the team were working extremely hard at getting rid of the tag as being a poor fielding side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is something we are working on, we know we have that tag now,&#8221; Edwards added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes I get frustrated because we can drop one catch and we are labelled a bad fielding team, even though we have fielded really well otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident we can get to a place where people are talking really positively about our fielding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have two players holding onto the No.1 spot on the ICC Women&#8217;s ODI Player Rankings, with skipper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2325,7529,1721,35813,7530,28993,50,101,56,54,55,20143],"class_list":["post-68568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-2325","tag-app-stream","tag-cricket","tag-england-women","tag-highlighted-news","tag-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-womens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568","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=68568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}