{"id":164838,"date":"2025-06-07T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164838\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:35:09","slug":"sophie-ecclestone-england-spinner-to-take-a-break-from-domestic-cricket-to-prioritise-mental-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164838\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Ecclestone: England spinner to take a break from domestic cricket to ‘prioritise mental wellbeing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

England spinner Sophie Ecclestone will take a break from domestic cricket as she manages a quad injury and to “prioritise her wellbeing”. <\/b><\/p>\n

Ecclestone, 26, was left out of England’s first squad<\/a> under new coach Charlotte Edwards because she was recovering from a knee injury. <\/p>\n

She played for the UP Warriorz in India’s Women’s Premier League in February but was sidelined for two months and missed the beginning of Lancashire’s domestic season. <\/p>\n

The left-arm spinner has since played two one-day matches and six T20s for her county, but was withdrawn from their match against Hampshire<\/a> on Tuesday because of the quad problem. <\/p>\n

At this stage, Ecclestone, who is the number one-ranked ODI bowler in the world, remains available for England’s white-ball series against India, which begins on 28 June at Trent Bridge. <\/p>\n

“Sophie has been managing a quad niggle over the past week but more importantly she wants to take a step back from cricket for a short period to look after herself,” said Edwards. <\/p>\n

“We’re totally behind that. We want to be able to select Sophie for the India series but the most important thing for her at the moment is that she feels in a better place. <\/p>\n

“We all agree that a break now could be beneficial for her to achieve that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England spinner Sophie Ecclestone will take a break from domestic cricket as she manages a quad injury and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-164838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114641877425613966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164838","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=164838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}