Room with a view

After long hours in the gym and the nets we met up at the National Cricket Performance Centre in Loughborough for a four-day training camp before heading to West Indies for the ICC Women’s World Twenty20.

Everyone was so happy to be back as a full squad with Sarah, Claire and Holly in the side again. We then had a training day before playing two games against the England women’s academy side.

In the first game we batted first and scored 130 which we thought was pretty decent on that track. We picked up an early wicket but then Caroline Atkins went a bit psycho and hit the ball to all parts of the ground.

She got them within sight of getting the runs but on 74 she was stumped - it was one of the best T20 innings I have ever seen. After her wicket they struggled and we ended up winning by 15 runs.

In the second game we bowled first. We did alright apart from not bowling our overs in time which meant a one over penalty, so six runs were added to their score which meant 131 to win.

We kept up with the rate right the way through our innings but lost wickets. I came in at five and ended up batting with Danni Wyatt for the rest of the game. We hit some boundaries, ran well and managed to keep well up with the rate. I even hit a six (yes dad, I did hit one off the square). We ended up winning with two overs to spare which in T20 cricket is quite comfortable.

It was nice to have a couple of games before we headed to St Kitts.