Women’s World Cup 2025 Team Watch: England start anew under a new captain and the stewardship of a new coach.
The Women’s World Cup 2025 will see England enter a tournament with a new slate.
This event presents England’s first major test following the disastrous T20 World Cup and Ashes campaigns that led to the appointment of a new coach and captain. Nevertheless, the team’s composition has only been slightly altered, so it is up to captain Nat Sciver-Brunt and head coach Charlotte Edwards to make the most of the talented players at their disposal and do what no one has since their victory in 2017.
Eight players from the 2022 runners-up against Australia are still in the starting lineup, and their depth has grown as a result of ongoing development and investment in the English women’s game. The new administration only took office in April, so it’s still early. A perfect sweep of the two home white-ball series against the West Indies, who were eliminated from this World Cup, was marred by series losses to India in both forms.
England has called up the incredibly experienced Danni Wyatt-Hodge to support the middle order after the success of a re-enacted opening pair between Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones against the West Indies was more measured against India.
At this point, Edwards’ statement that “getting to the final would be a real success for us” after those series is accurate.
Without the departed Katherine Sciver-Brunt, Anya Shrubsole, and the underappreciated Kate Cross, seamer Lauren Bell led the women’s Hundred in wickets and leads a seam attack. Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn, Charlie Dean, and Linsey Smith will make up England’s four-pronged spin department.
With two hundreds in 2017, a fifty in the final, and two undefeated hundreds in losing causes against Australia, including the title decider in 2022, Nat Sciver-Brunt has been England’s spiritual leader at the World Cup. She is now officially in charge of them as well, having led the team in a major competition for the first time.
She scored 160 runs at an average of 53.33 against India in their most recent ODI series, making her the top scorer. Her return as an all-rounder is on track, albeit on a tight timetable, as she bowled for the first time in six months during a warm-up with New Zealand just 10 days before the event began.