Nat Sciver-Brunt admitted England “targeted” their Women’s T20 World Cup match in opposition to Pakistan, which culminated in a record-breaking victory in Cape Town, as an opportunity to point out off.
England attacked from the outset all through the event and always appeared to seek out the boundaries, however they reached new floor with their 114-run victory, breaking two information.
Heather Knight’s facet grew to become the primary crew ever to attain greater than 200 in an innings in Women’s T20 World Cups and secured the competitors’s largest ever successful margin by runs, beating South Africa’s 113-run win over Thailand in 2020.
Sciver-Brunt struck an unbeaten 81 from simply 40 balls as England set Pakistan 214 to win, earlier than Pakistan had been decreased to 99 for 9 from their 20 overs.
“We did sort of target this game previously in the tournament,” England’s top-scorer mentioned.
“I think we’ve been building up to a performance like this.
“We sort of targeted this game as a chance to show everyone as a team what we’re about and (with) it being the last game in our group as well, it was a free chance to show off a bit and do the things that we do really well as a group.”
Australia have dominated girls’s cricket in recent times however England have gained all their matches on the T20 World Cup to this point, a marked enchancment on their slim qualification from final 12 months’s one-day worldwide World Cup in New Zealand.
Sciver-Brunt admitted the crew have been inspired by their new coach Jon Lewis to push themselves and play attacking cricket.
“It’s something Lewis has definitely asked us to do, to push,” she mentioned.
“He is finding random records that we have beaten, not the standard ones.
“But it’s important for us to be pushing ourselves and pushing our standards higher and higher.
“I guess if we can do that consistently, the world is ours really.”