Her time at Bede’s School in Sussex also coincided with that of former England wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor, who worked there as a sports coach before moving back into the professional game where she now works with England’s men.<\/p>\n
It gave Capsey – a 12-year-old spectator in the stands when Taylor and England won the 2017 World Cup at Lord’s – the chance to work with her wicketkeeping hero who is regarded as one of the best keepers the world has seen.<\/p>\n
“The way she went about it, did it her way and brought an X-factor to it was really cool,” Capsey says.<\/p>\n
“She has been on my shoulder for the last four or five years saying I need to get back to keeping.<\/p>\n
“It has been awesome to touch base with her, especially this summer to be able to message her and say ‘I am back’.”<\/p>\n
Capsey began ramping up her glovework in training at the start of the summer, fitting drills around her batting, bowling and out-fielding.<\/p>\n
She has also had to tweak her sessions in the gym to strengthen her legs and, in particular, her abductors for those squats behind the stumps.<\/p>\n
“I have pulled up, touch wood, after all of it so far,” Capsey says. “Come back to me at the end of the week.”<\/p>\n
And while it is six years since her last official outing, Capsey did keep behind closed doors in one of England’s warm-ups against India before the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n
She took a tidy, rising catch off seamer Dani Gibson while standing up to the stumps, a stumping off spinner Linsey Smith and did not concede a bye.<\/p>\n
“It was awesome,” Capsey says. “I loved the experience.<\/p>\n
“Keeping up to Gibbo was a really nice challenge.<\/p>\n
“That catch was one of the highlights but also it is the little things, whether in the first over stood back to [Lauren] Filer and getting one cleanly in the hands, there were a couple of leg-side takes as well.”<\/p>\n
Capsey has also been standing up to the stumps to Issy Wong, one of England’s quicker bowlers, in training this week.<\/p>\n
The wider knock-on could be intriguing, if these three one-day internationals go well.<\/p>\n
At the very least, it will provide a convenient back-up to 33-year-old Jones, who has been rested for this series, and some competition for places.<\/p>\n
And, after Jones returned five single-figure scores in seven World Cup innings this year, it could free up a space for a more explosive batter in England’s top order, given Capsey has already cemented her place in the team through her batting alone.<\/p>\n
“There is going to be nerves and pressure around, but more internal pressure than anything,” Capsey says.<\/p>\n
“As a professional athlete you don’t want to do it badly and you are representing England.<\/p>\n
“It is an international series, there are ICC points on the line. <\/p>\n
“To be trusted to have the gloves for England has got to give you confidence as well.<\/p>\n
“I am not the finished article by any means but I did it for a long time growing up. <\/p>\n
“Regardless of the challenges presented this week I know I have a bit of experience to fall back on which is nice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her time at Bede’s School in Sussex also coincided with that of former England wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-755965","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\/755965","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=755965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}