Cricket news: 21 year old Rebecca Stokell was introduced to cricket at a young age by her father and older brothers. Having started out as a bowler, a back injury forced her to become a batsman instead. Since making her debut for Ireland in 2017, Stokell has made 15 appearances and her highest score of 36 came against the same opponents she will face next week.
Speaking ahead of training, Stokell said: “It was so exciting to finally get back onto the field with all the girls in an Irish jersey back in May against Scotland. It was a long winter, with quite a few disappointments due to COVID, so to finally play a series against a decent opposition, in front of a home crowd, was an unbelievable feeling.”
“I haven’t actually had the best run of it in the Super Series this season - a few 20s and 30s, but I haven’t manage to convert into a big score, which has been a big aim of mine this year. So, next week is a great opportunity for me to spend time in the middle, and hopefully find some form to carry into the European Qualifiers at the end of August.”
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“I can’t wait to play out in Malahide next week, I’ve always loved playing there and the fact we can have spectators is definitely an added bonus. We haven’t played a series in Dublin for two years now ,so hopefully we get a good crowd in for some competitive and exciting games.”
How important is this series ahead of the T20 World Cup Qualifier in August?
“It’s so good to get a series in before we go to the European T20 Qualifiers next month. It’s a great time for all of us to do things we have been working on in training, before we head to Spain. We are likely to come up against Holland and possibly Scotland, so having played them both at home this summer will give us great confidence going into those games later in the summer.”
How is the state of women’s cricket in Ireland?
“When I look around, I definitely feel the women’s game in Ireland is definitely growing and it’s great to be a part of it at this stage. Several part time contracts have been introduced in the last couple of years which is such an exciting prospect for me going forward.”
“Also the Super Series is improving year-on-year. I was involved in the very first season it began, a good few years back and the standard has increased hugely, meaning the step up into international cricket is a little less daunting.”
You were recently awarded a sports scholarship by Trinity College Dublin – how is that going?
“Trinity have provided incredible support to me this year, as well as Leah [Paul] and Rach [Delaney], who are also part of the scholarship programme. To have that extra support throughout the year has been vital in finishing second year of my degree. It’s allowed me to focus more of my time at training when I need to and know I won’t fall behind with my academics.”
The host group is coming into the arrangement with a triumph in the as of late closed Indian T20 Cricket Leagues arrangement, be that as it may, this one will be an alternate ball-game.The last time these two teams met in a 50-over conflict was the semi-last of the 2019 World Cup when England steered Australia convincingly.
All the more so after the ODI World Cup Super League has included a decent piece of setting and significance to practically every one of the restricted overs games, finishing every single dead elastic.Australia continued playing after a bizarrely long break of five months and did very well to not be whitewashed when the danger looked up and coming.
All things considered, those three games have just adjusted Australia to the fuming power of global cricket.Australia have been a splendid pack in the shortest form of the game and a triumph in the third and last game at Southampton likewise made sure about their crown in the ICC rankings.
Their spat the 50-overs fantasy game has been a long way from good and they have had the option to win just two of the nine arrangement over the most recent three years.After they met England in the WC experience, Australia have lost five of the seven games they have played, including a 0-3 whitewash against South Africa prior this year.
It should, consequently, not be amazing to see Aaron Finch saying something about his group's consistency.
"Driving into this one-day arrangement we're simply appearing to be as steady as could reasonably be expected, we realize that our reality positioning mirrors the irregularity we've had in the one day design… ", the Australian captain expressed in the pre-arrangement collaboration with the media.Then again, England have played six ODIs with everything taken into account after the decisive WC last against New Zealand a year ago, and have drawn an arrangement 1-1 against South Africa and vanquished Ireland 2-1 as of late.
Ireland looks to comeback after losing the opening T20 International against South Africa on Monday, the game has shifted from Malahide to Stormont, a place all-rounder Mark Adair reminiscences.
Speaking ahead of training, Adair said: “I've grown up playing around Stormont, I remember even helping out the groundsman with the covers when I was young.
In fact, my first live game of cricket was Ireland v England at Stormont where I was helping to pull the covers - so it will be nice to be back playing there again.”“It's been great to be back playing in front of crowds too.
When Bal [Andrew Balbirnie] got his hundred the other day you saw the entire ground stand up for him.
I don't want to say it was emotional, but you got that tingling feeling once more.
It gives us hope that in the not-too-distant future when teams like this come over we'll once again see big crowds - and hopefully we’ll put in a performance against them.”“T20 cricket can be a complicated game at times, but from game one we know that if we just closed out their innings better, and started ours a bit better, we could have been looking at 150 plays 150.
In the first match of CPL 2020 or Caribbean Premier League to be played at the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium in Trinidad, Jamaica Tallwahs will take on Trinbago Knight Riders.
After the COVID-19 heartbreak the T20 cricket is finally back on the Caribbean ‘s T20 land.
The match is scheduled to start from 3.00 AM, onwards Live on Star Sports Network.
