Win In India Decider Would Be 'shift' For England

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Dunkley hits 4 to seal 8 wicket triumph for England

Matthew Henry

BBC Sport Journalist

Winning Tuesday's one-day bid decider against India would thief "shift" nan communicative astir nan England women's team, says all-rounder Charlie Dean.

England levelled nan three-match series pinch triumph successful a rain-shortened lucifer astatine Lord's connected Saturday, leaving nan title tied astatine 1-1 going into nan last lucifer astatine Chester-le-Street connected Tuesday.

Following their Ashes hammering by Australia successful nan winter, England won each six matches against West Indies astatine nan commencement of nan summertime but were good beaten by India successful nan T20 bid which followed.

"Losing nan T20 bid and nan first crippled of nan 50-over, it would consciousness for illustration a spot of a shift," Dean said.

"To beryllium capable to propulsion that disconnected would beryllium thing really typical and would springiness a batch of girls a batch of assurance going to India."

Tuesday is England's past charismatic fixture successful nan 50-over format earlier their World Cup run originates connected 3 October against South Africa successful India.

A regular disapproval of England of caller years has been their expertise to triumph bilateral bid extracurricular of World Cups, only to suffer unit matches astatine nan awesome tournaments.

They mislaid to South Africa successful nan semi-finals of nan 2023 T20 World Cup and exited past year's arena astatine nan group shape aft crumbling successful a winner-takes-all lucifer against West Indies.

Tuesday's decider will beryllium arsenic adjacent arsenic imaginable to specified moments extracurricular of nan world events.

"We person seen bilateral bid wherever done really but erstwhile travel to nan World Cup games aliases tourney cricket we person not had nan momentum aliases been objective successful those unit moments," Dean said.

"Any chance we tin emulate that successful bilateral bid is cleanable practice.

"Obviously we want to win, but moreover if we don't we tin return those learnings, support getting amended and group ourselves up to person a bully 50-over competition. That is nan astir important.

"No matter really nan crippled goes tomorrow that we really bespeak and study from nan situation."

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