“I strongly really feel that there is actual progress nonetheless left on this group of gamers,” Lewis informed TNT Sports activities. “Via the sequence, all three elements of this sequence, we performed a number of younger gamers.
“I actually really feel that I have never completed the job that I got here right here to do. Clearly the outcomes have not gone the best way we wish them and I am actually dedicated to the individuals as a result of we have a very good group of individuals throughout the dressing room. I am actually dedicated to them. I am actually dedicated to rising girls’s cricket in England. So yeah, I really feel like I am the fitting man to do it.”
“That occurs often,” Lewis mentioned. “I feel simply to do it after each away Ashes sequence might be not the fitting solution to do it. One of many nice issues we are going to do from this sequence is we are going to study, we’ll need to study and we’ll have to maneuver the group ahead and we’ll have a look at each single side of what we do internally.
“I am certain the those that work externally from this group specifically will have a look at that as nicely. It is one thing that occurs often on a yearly foundation. We evaluate all the things on a regular basis, we mirror and we predict and we try to develop the group and try to develop the game.
“We clearly must compete higher throughout the bilateral sequence we play towards Australia. But additionally we have World Cups arising as nicely yearly. There is a 50-over World Cup arising this 12 months in India, after which the next 12 months, the 20-over World Cup at residence…yearly there are massive tournaments to play and we have to show issues round actually rapidly.”
Lewis additionally paid tribute to the “juggernaut” Australian group, who bounced again from barely retaining the Ashes in England in a 2023 sequence drawn at eight factors all, to crush their opponents this time round.
Heather Knight’s place as captain will probably come into query•Getty Photographs
“Australia have performed some magnificent cricket,” Lewis mentioned. “They have not allow us to play the cricket we wish to play. They put us underneath a number of strain of their residence circumstances and we had a few probabilities early on within the sequence to create a few alternatives to win video games of cricket and we did not take them.
“We did not assist ourselves at instances, particularly within the discipline. We dropped Annabel Sutherland on 30, Beth Mooney thrice, I feel, earlier than she received to twenty. That is a giant space of our sport that we noticed on the World Cup as nicely that we actually want to enhance.
“We’ll have a look at all areas of our sport throughout this tour and throughout the winter and try to evaluate actually totally and decide the bones out of all the things and try to come again stronger as a result of that is what we have to do.”
Knight, whose place as England captain has additionally come underneath strain, was requested by the host broadcaster whether or not she had performed her final Ashes match in Australia.
“I do not know,” Knight mentioned. “In the intervening time it is clearly all fairly uncooked and it is occurred fairly rapidly. The subsequent few weeks will probably be about figuring out what’s finest for the long run, I assume, so we’ll see. It is one thing that will probably be labored out within the subsequent couple of months, what the way forward for the group holds, I assume.”
Knight mentioned her facet’s failure to take their probabilities within the first two ODIs, which Australia received by 4 wickets and 21 runs respectively, and a good schedule which did not give England a lot time to show these defeats round have been the important thing variations between the edges.
These video games, and the rain-affected second T20I, have been the closest of a sequence which wasn’t actually that shut as England struggled all through with poor fielding and shot choice.
“With this Australian group, after they’re on high they’re actually good at urgent residence their benefit and retaining that successful momentum,” Knight mentioned. “It has been a very powerful, irritating tour… credit score to them, they’ve performed some exceptional cricket, have had some totally different individuals acting at totally different instances and received these massive moments and pressed residence the benefit after they have been on high.”
Valkerie Baynes is a normal editor, girls’s cricket, at ESPNcricinfo
