Postpublished at 00:39 Greenwich Mean Time 14 March 2022
England captain Heather Knight: “I was going to have a bat but I don’t think there is much in it. It looks like a half-decent surface, maybe a little bit on the dry side so the spinners might come into it at the end.
“We’re just focusing on today and it’s really important that we do that and really important that we park the last two games.
“It hasn’t started how we wanted and we’ve put ourselves under pressure but all we’ve got to do is focus on this one game, get our mindset right, make sure we do the right things, relax and make sure we’re doing the basic things that we do very well and hopefully we’ll be OK.”