Girls’s Ashes: England’s Sophia Dunkley says Lionesses are inspiration forward of Australia sequence

England’s Sophia Dunkley is utilizing the Lionesses as “inspiration” as she heads into the Girls’s Ashes this summer season.

A record-breaking crowd is ready to descend on Trent Bridge for the Girls’s Ashes Check match which begins on Thursday – reside on Sky Sports activities Cricket from 10am – with over 11,000 tickets already offered.

The Ashes sequence arrives with ladies’s sport on an explosive upward trajectory, with England’s footballers successful the European Championships and the Pink Roses rugby union crew securing the Six Nations Grand Slam throughout the final 12 months.

And the success of England’s ladies in these different sports activities ought to encourage England to “entertain” the crowds this summer season and showcase cricket on the worldwide stage for girls and younger ladies, in accordance with Dunkley.

“I feel for us as a crew, we’re so impressed by what the Lionesses did final summer season and it has actually introduced us collectively to try to encourage and entertain the following era,” stated the all-rounder.

“We’ve an enormous alternative this summer season to do one thing particular.

“I feel the Hundred is without doubt one of the first instances I’ve performed in entrance of an enormous crowd in England and having the stress of simply having performed for England as nicely.

“I feel that have of getting performed in huge stadiums is vital and I really feel rather more ready having that chance. For me, that is my first dwelling Ashes so having that dwelling crowd will hopefully be an excellent assist.”

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Knight: We’re all studying on the job with Exams

England’s Ashes marketing campaign will get beneath method with the Check match at Trent Bridge and captain Heather Knight is aware of will probably be a case of “studying on the job” for a lot of of her aspect’s younger stars who haven’t had a lot expertise of the format.

Knight herself has solely performed 10 Check matches throughout her 13-year worldwide profession.

She stated: “It has been very good to simply deal with pink ball. It’s a sort of cricket that we’ve not performed an excessive amount of of in order that has been very nice.

“I feel after we get the chance to try this we actually have a progress mindset as a gaggle and discuss much more and be taught actually rapidly.

“We’re all studying a bit on the job [but] I really like batting and it is a chance for limitless batting.”

Girls’s Ashes schedule (all video games reside on Sky Sports activities)

Check match (Trent Bridge) – Thursday June 22 – Monday June 26 (11am begin)
First T20 worldwide (Edgbaston) – Saturday July 1 (6.35pm begin)
Second T20 worldwide (The Kia Oval) – Wednesday July 5 (6.35pm begin)
Third T20 worldwide (Lord’s) – Saturday July 8 (6.35pm begin)
First one-day international (Distinctive Stadium, Bristol) – Wednesday, July 12 (1pm begin)
Second one-day international (The Ageas Bowl) – Sunday July 16 (11am begin)
Third one-day worldwide (Taunton) – Tuesday July 18 (1pm begin)

How the scoring system works for the Girls’s Ashes?

The winners of the Check match earn 4 factors, with the groups taking two factors every within the occasion of a draw. Two factors are awarded for victories in every of the white-ball video games, with sides choosing up some extent apiece within the occasion of a tie or no consequence.

Watch the Girls’s Ashes reside on Sky Sports activities Cricket from Thursday June. Protection of the Check match, at Trent Bridge, begins at 10am forward of the primary ball at 11am.