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England have to wait anxiously for Sophie Ecclestone’s fitness for the Women’s Cricket World Cup semi-finals. South Africa After the star spinner injured his shoulder in the final group game.
Ecclestone was injured in the first over of England’s easy eight-wicket win. new zealand Chasing the ball to the boundary line in Visakhapatnam.
It appeared his knee got caught a few yards away from the rope and the 26-year-old’s heavy fall resulted in an injury to his left bowling shoulder.
Ecclestone – the world number one ranked bowler in women’s ODIs, who has taken 137 wickets in 81 matches for England – left the field before returning to bowl.
She had Brooke Halliday caught at deep midwicket by Sophia Dunkley, but took it back a day after dispatching only four balls, with the England and Wales Cricket Board later confirming that Ecclestone was receiving treatment for an injury.
captain of england Nat Sciver-Brunt Told Sky Sports: “I don’t know anything further, but it (Ecclestone’s departure) was certainly precautionary.
“We’ve got a big match against South Africa.
“We don’t want to risk anything now and we will know more in a few days.”
England achieved their target of finishing second before the match Australia Easily in the group stage.
In doing so, if Wednesday’s semi-final in Guwahati is affected by rain or there is no result for any reason, England will advance to the final against Australia or India.
Sciver-Brunt said: “We wanted to perform really well and build on the approach we have taken to our cricket during this tournament, which has been largely successful, and bring some confidence into the semi-finals.
“We wanted to be proactive with the bat, and confirm the plans with the ball and make sure our execution was high.
“The one thing we can do as a team is to show everyone how much we care about fielding, and keeping that energy up in fairly hot conditions was really important.”
New Zealand lost their last nine wickets for 79 runs as the White Ferns were all out at 89-1 for 168 in 38.2 overs.
Lynsey Smith took three for 30 and Charlie Dean made his 100th international appearance with one wicket, two catches and a smart throw to run out Jess Kerr.
England achieved their modest target in 29.2 overs after the openers amy jones And Tammy Beaumont laid the foundation with her fourth 50-plus partnership of the tournament.
Beaumont hit a quickfire 40 from 38 balls and Jones completed the task with an unbeaten 86, his second half-century of the competition and his 16th in ODI cricket, as England quickly recovered from their six-wicket defeat to Australia four days earlier.
Jones said: “Tammy was fantastic at the start, she definitely took a lot of pressure off me when I was finding it a bit difficult.
“It is very exciting to reach the semi-finals, we are all happy to finish second.
“We had a bad performance twice in this tournament and then we bounced back very quickly.
“(It’s) really positive, which will definitely give us confidence going into the semis.”