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<\/p>\nEngland pace bowler Kate Cross described her Cricket World Cup omission as “savage” and says she was left feeling “quite sick” after hearing the news.<\/p>\n
Cross, a mainstay of her country’s 50-over team in recent years, was left out of a 15-player party for this autumn’s ODI showpiece in India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
England have selected four spin options in their squad – Sarah Glenn, Sophie Ecclestone, Linsey Smith and Charlie Dean – and with Lauren Filer, Lauren Bell and Em Arlott picked as the frontline seamers, fellow quick Cross has been pushed out.<\/p>\n
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Nat Sciver-Brunt (captain), Em Arlott, Tammy Beaumont, Lauren Bell, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Filer, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Heather Knight, Emma Lamb, Linsey Smith, Danni Wyatt-Hodge<\/p>\n
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\n Cross (left) has played 76 ODIs for England, taking 101 wickets<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old had been dropped for the final ODI of the home summer, against India, while she missed the Ashes thrashing in Australia last winter with a back issue and has not been at her best since returning to action.<\/p>\n
Speaking on her BBC No Balls Podcast, Cross said: “What I’m really struggling to get my head around is it all feels like it’s happened so quickly.<\/p>\n
“I’ve just clearly fallen out of favour with Lot [head coach Charlotte Edwards]. I haven’t processed it. It’s still really raw.<\/p>\n
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Cross bagged her 100th wicket ODI wicket for England when she removed Windies’ Aaliyah Alleyne earlier this summer<\/p>\n
‘I feel like I should be on the plane’<\/p>\n
“Being in the best XI is a different conversation but not being on the plane – it feels savage.<\/p>\n
“The messages I’ve had from everyone have been amazing. And ultimately I’m not going to be playing some cricket – it’s minuscule in that sense.<\/p>\n
“But it’s hard to take because I don’t feel like I’ve done enough to deserve not being on that plane.”<\/p>\n
Cross, who has taken eight wickets in six matches for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred this season, has not yet spoken to Edwards about whether she will be named as a standby player for the World Cup, which runs from September 30 to November 2.<\/p>\n
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\n Cross is currently playing for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred<\/p>\n
“That’s almost the hardest,” she added. “If someone goes down, you might be playing in three weeks’ time in a World Cup.<\/p>\n
“Then everything you feel right now is so confused and manipulated almost because you’ve got to spin it around.”<\/p>\n