AFTER England’s opening World Cup defeat to Australia last month, Sophie Ecclestone sat in the changing room, devastated, and opened up to teammate Kate Cross about how “embarrassed” she was by her performance.
As Australia had racked up 310 for three, Ecclestone had been taken down, her figures of none for 77 the worst of her ODI career. To top it off, she had been dismissed off the final ball as England lost by 12 runs.
Yesterday, Ecclestone and the England changing room was an altogether different scene. She had put in the finest all-round showing of her ODI career — 24 off 11 balls, followed by six for 36 — as part of a team performance hailed as “perfect” by captain Heather Knight to book a place in Sunday’s final: a rematch against the all-conquering Australia. It is the first time these teams — women’s cricket’s dominant forces — have met in the final since 1988.
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