Charlotte Edwards

They had Mark Robinson coaching the England side.

They've got Charlotte Edwards now.

It's not like they've gone desperately cap in hand to try to recruit Australians for every gig around England women's cricket.

Um, so having a difference of perspective is probably not a bad thing after such a long tenure for, for Clare Connor, even though she's had-

so.

Uh, and he says, "What do you guys think?" Um, so, um, Charlotte Edwards was asked about this after the third ODI, um, and basically said that, um, she's looking at Capsey, but ba- but predominantly as an option in T20 cricket, didn't she, as the wicket keeper? Um, and my guess that the, the perception would be that having a non-specialist keeper in T20 cricket is less of a risk than having them do it in longer formats.

Yeah.

I mean, I was kind of surprised with Lottie's answer, to be honest.

Um, because I think that it's gonna take an awful lot of time and effort to develop Alice Capsey into a competent wicket keeper who can actually keep in, for example, the Olympics.

Um, and that that energy could actually go into developing the batting of somebody who already is ver- is a much better keeper than Capsey will ever be, having not done it in her kind of formative years as a, as a professional cricketer.

Um, but anyway, that, that's what they're doing and, you know, it's, [laughs] um, you know, Charlotte Edwards knows a lot about cricket, I accept.

Um, so it's, it was just interesting that she was prepared to kind of come out and say that, and I, and I'm in, very curious as to which, what the conversations have been behind the scenes with Amy Jones.

As with most other aspects of the women's game, Cricket Australia are leading the way on bringing through past players into head coach roles.

Three past Australia players have coached Australia during the professional era, while Kytely, as an Australian woman, coached England before Charlotte Edwards became the first English female coach of the side.

Nevertheless, the proportion of female head coaches in Australian women's domestic cricket reflects a similar picture to England.

Two of the six WBBL head coaches are women, with the same number in state cricket.

Whatever's gonna create the best possible environment for my team to To win games

Mm.

It's kind of interesting what you say about not enough players coming through, 'cause when you do look around the circuit, the best players from the last generation of players to play for England, like Charlotte Edwards, uh, Sarah Taylor, Anya Shrubsole's done some consultancy coaching work, uh, Dani Hazell, like, those are players who are in coaching, but they nec- not- haven't necessarily had that time to then build up their coaching to a point where they would be kind of like ...

Or they're just getting into the point where they would be head coaches.

Um, and she's played four One Day Cup matches for Surrey across this summer.

You also wouldn't think it's beyond the powers of Charlotte Edwards, for example, to have a quiet word to get her some overs behind the stumps, given the positive noises that she made about Capsey's keeping at the end of the Ireland series.

Um, so yeah, I think it's a little bit weird.

There's also a wider point that Charlotte Edwards said last year when she took on the job that players had to play more county cricket.

Yeah.

And they were taken out at the start of the summer for intra-squad training camps, and that army training camp they did as well, which was in preparation for the T20 World Cup, which f- I guess it swings in roundabouts when you, you know, you, you have the group together or you let them go and play county cricket.

I think it's a great appointment.

Um, and I, I thought that that would be, she'd be a very, uh, strong candidate if it was, you know, somebody that was always already within the game.

Yeah, they have.

And I love that, um, Alice Capsey's obviously had the gloves and now Charlotte Edwards has said she's put her hand up to be the T20 keeper moving forward.

I was like, "We called that.

Me and you said this on the podcast." [laughs]

This is, th- this is good.

The, the, the Charlotte Edwards era seems, seems good.

How does it, how does it feel in the team? What's the, what's the team vibe?

Good.

so far but there have also been two pretty convincing wins for England so we don't know what's going to happen in the third match but if it follows suit then we're looking at a very successful week for England on the one hand.

On the other hand Sid I guess that lots of people are kind of asking the question of what England and Charlotte Edwards in particular have sort of really learned from this series.

So I suppose we might kind of talk about a few players who had question marks hanging over them maybe ahead of this series or who have been given either a kind of another opportunity or more like a sort of first opportunity.

So maybe let's start with Maya Bouchier, who obviously had a really successful day on Tuesday at Leicester.

There's two people who are worse.

So the professional era I'm taking is from 2014.

Charlotte Edwards actually had the worst run out of the season.

Oh, well, if she was

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