Bangladesh bowler has a chance to make the team, but the Englishman has no chance.
Kate Cross sees the upcoming Hundred as her chance to earn a spot in the T20 World Cup and has n't given up hope of playing for England this year.
Cross returned to England's ODI area for an assertive eight- innings win over New Zealand in Worcester on Sunday, after an abdominal pressure ruled her out of the series opener, which England won by nine wickets for a 2- 0 lead.
Ahead of the last 50- over match in Bristol on Wednesday, Cross remained solidly focused on her role in ODIs as England's top seam bowler but, when asked, indicated that she would do all in her power to influence head coach Jon Lewis to choose her for the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in October.
" Lewy's said,' not say not,' with T20 cricket, he's said he's certainly never ruled me out for upcoming series or game", Cross said. " But I can only handle what I can handle and I know I've got the Hundred coming off where I'll be able to start the ball and test and end games off for the Superchargers.
" So for me, that's my opportunity to showcase to him what I can do and if that's good enough, it's good enough, and if it's not, then I'll obviously support the girls from quite a distance as I wo n't be in Bangladesh."
Cross has n't taken a wicket in a T20I since the Women's Ashes almost six months prior, and she has n't featured in one since then when England hosts Sri Lanka late last summer. She has 11 wickets from 16 matches at an average of 33.72 and economy rate of 7.22.
She was n't part of the squad for five T20Is in New Zealand earlier this year, or the three against Pakistan more recently, before taking 1 for 31 from 10 overs to help bowl the White Ferns out for 141 in Worcester, where spinner Sophie Ecclestone took 5 for 25 from nine overs.
After the multi-format Ashes series in Australia, there is an ODI version that should be played in India in the event that Cross is dropped from the T20 World Cup.
" We are probably more focused on the T20 World Cup at the minute, obviously that's the one more in front of us, but we're still trying to evolve our 50- over game as well to make sure that we are as well prepared as we possibly can be when it gets to that Ashes series," Cross said". And when we get to the World Cup in India, obviously conditions in India, they'll be so different to what we're facing at the minute.
" That's where winning games of cricket, how we are at the minute, is really pleasing because we're playing what's in front of us and as we keep moving forward as a group and learning how best to play conditions, then hopefully what we're learning from these series, we'll travel over and we'll be able to keep that ruthless nature and take that into big ICC events and obviously that'll stand you in good stead to win trophies".
The ruthless streak she speaks of is something England have tried to cultivate since Pakistan's recent visit, where the hosts won both white- ball series but showed a distinct lack of killer instinct when they had their opponents on the ropes.
" We probably had a series against Pakistan a couple of weeks ago where we maybe did n't play the kind of cricket that we wanted to", Cross said. " That was something that we chatted quite thoroughly about and how we wanted to go about this series and that's probably shown in the cricket that we've played.
" It's definitely something we talk a lot about. It's a hard skill to nail down and for different teams I think it looks different and I think that's what we're still trying to work out as a one- day unit, how to be consistently ruthless and obviously that changes with pitch conditions, opposition, where we are in the world and how we're playing our cricket.
" That's something that we're still learning as a group. We've still got a lot of young faces around... there's still a lot of inexperience in the group and I think everyone now is trying to work out how they inpidually can be ruthless whilst we're still trying to be ruthless as a team. I say that … we've not lost an ODI series under Lewy yet. So there's obviously a ruthless element in that".
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