{"id":121985,"date":"2025-05-22T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/121985\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:53:08","slug":"england-begin-new-era-with-commanding-win-over-west-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/121985\/","title":{"rendered":"England begin new era with commanding win over West Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off a disappointing whitewash at the hands of Australia in the Women\u2019s Ashes earlier this year, England marked the beginning of a new chapter \u2013 with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/england-bring-in-former-captain-as-head-coach-of-the-women-s-side\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new head coach<\/a> and Nat Sciver-Brunt as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/new-era-begins-as-england-confirm-new-captaincy-appointment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new all-format captain<\/a> \u2013 in commanding fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/rankings\/69734\/sophia-dunkley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophia Dunkley<\/a>, who smashed her highest-ever T20I score, praised the impact that head coach Charlotte Edwards had on the new-look England side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to start the summer off with a win,\u201d Dunkley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLottie (Charlotte Edwards) has come in as a really calm person and really clear with what we want to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to come out and contribute to the team, try to impact the game as much as possible. It was a good night. Heather has been outstanding around the group, nothing has really changed much on that front.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off a disappointing whitewash at the hands of Australia in the Women\u2019s Ashes earlier this year, England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[15034,748,393,16517,4884,15036,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-121985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-app-stream","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-england-women","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-highlighted-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114550407462285571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}