At the end of their multi-format series, Grace Scrivens will have another opportunity to prove herself as captain when she captains England A’s red-ball squad in their four-day match against Australia A in Sydney this week.
After her senior counterparts failed in their Women’s Ashes whitewash earlier this year, Grace Scrivens, 21, was given the captaincy of the T20I portion of the seven-match tour and succeeded on the first try.
At Sydney’s Hurstville Oval, England A won the first game of the series by three wickets, with Grace Scrivens scoring 35 off of 38 balls. The next two games were rained out.
Following that, Durham’s skipper, Hollie Armitage, took charge of the three 50-over games. The teams now have two victories apiece after England’s exciting one-wicket victory in Monday’s third ODI.
The multi-format series has no official points at stake, but there is a winner-take-all element to the series finale, which will be held at Cricket Central from April 12–15.
Following Heather Knight’s dismissal from the position after nine years, Grace Scrivens, the captain of Essex, is unlikely to be considered as her replacement because she has not yet made her full England debut.
Nonetheless, after leading the Under-19 squad to the 2023 T20 World Cup final in South Africa, Scrivens is regarded by many as an England captain in the making. She was recently referred to as “the English Graeme Smith” by Andy Tennant, her director of cricket at Essex, who was referring to the South Africa skipper who captained his team for 11 years after taking over at the age of 22 in 2003.
A new captain will be named before England’s first summer series against the West Indies in May, given that Charlotte Edwards has been appointed head coach. The current vice captain, Nat Sciver-Brunt, is on maternity leave after giving birth to her son, Theodore, not long ago.
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