Six games, six wins - but what have England learned?

Charlotte Edwards was tasked pinch rebuilding England aft a sadistic Ashes drubbing which resulted successful dense disapproval of nan team's attitude, civilization and on-field performances.

The legendary erstwhile skipper has started her era arsenic caput coach pinch a T20 and one-day world cleanable expanse complete a depleted West Indies side, but this was nary surprise.

Ultimately, Edwards and caller skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt could not person asked for an easier commencement to their tenure.

Edwards' predecessor Jon Lewis besides began his stint arsenic caput coach pinch a cleanable expanse complete nan Windies distant from home, creating a consciousness of optimism and excitement earlier it each came crashing down pinch 2 disappointing T20 World Cup campaigns and nan ill-fated Ashes bid to commencement this year.

So this bid triumph comes pinch a connection of be aware - we person seen this 1 before.

England person regularly dominated location bilateral series, and past crumbled connected nan large stage. Prior to this series, they had won 79.3% of their completed white-ball games astatine location since 2020, and that number rises to 87.8% erstwhile you return retired Australia and India.

There are overmuch tougher tests to come, starting pinch India's presence successful precocious June earlier nan very challenging imaginable of a 50-over World Cup successful India and Sri Lanka astatine nan extremity of September.

World Cup-winning spinner Alex Hartley says that England are successful a "good place" because of nan ascendant mode successful which they person been winning, but has this bid provided thing to propose things will beryllium different and whether nan "new" England tin yet execute nether unit erstwhile it matters?

When she was appointed, Edwards made it clear that 50-over cricket would beryllium her first priority, saying that England needed a smarter gameplan and to amended their awareness, peculiarly pinch nan bat.

Her first move was to beforehand wicketkeeper Amy Jones backmost to opener alongside Tammy Beaumont, a domiciled she fulfilled successful 22 matches betwixt 2016 and 2019.

Jones surely repaid Edwards' religion pinch a subordinate of nan bid capacity - scoring her first world 100 successful her 246th lucifer and past backing it up successful nan 2nd crippled to decorativeness pinch 251 runs astatine an mean of 125.50 and awesome strike-rate of 114.61.

But nan situation for Jones mirrors England's mostly - tin she measurement up against higher-quality opposition?

Her mean of 55.45 against West Indies is her highest against immoderate team, but that drops to 16.33 against Australia and 19.66 against India.

One facet to see is really teams whitethorn accommodate to her occurrence and really she'll fare successful different conditions successful India. How would Jones execute if a broadside was to commencement pinch rotation against her, for example?

She averages 36.2 against rotation and has a strike-rate of 82, some of which are much than respectable.

The 31-year-old has only faced 35 balls of rotation successful nan 10-over powerplay but is yet to beryllium dismissed.

She tin beryllium a slow starter against rotation though, being dismissed 10 times by a spinner successful her first 30 balls and her strike-rate drops to 78.

Her grounds pinch Beaumont suggests they are a earthy fresh for nan top-order rebuild which was needed aft Maia Bouchier's misery successful Australia wherever she averaged six.

Jones and Beaumont are England's third-most successful ODI partnership, scoring 1,786 runs together successful 30 innings while their mean of 63.8 is comfortably nan highest successful nan existent team. Heather Knight and Sciver-Brunt are down them pinch 42.8.

Though West Indies mostly offered England very small challenge, nan astir effective measurement of judging wherever they are astatine arsenic a squad is to spot really they fared against 1 of nan world's champion players successful Hayley Matthews.

Without chap all-rounders Deandra Dottin aliases Chinelle Henry successful nan squad, West Indies' hopes relied solely connected their skipper and much often than not, she keeps them afloat.

And it is origin for interest that England person not performed good against nan 1 subordinate who tin consistently put their bowlers nether nan pump and supply a important contest.

Matthews missed the second and 3rd ODIs pinch a enarthrosis problem, having made a fluent 48 and taken 2-49 successful nan first, but was magnificent successful nan T20s.

She scored a sparkling period successful a full of 146 successful nan opener astatine Canterbury, fell cheaply successful nan 2nd astatine Hove earlier scoring 71 and taking 3-32 successful nan 3rd astatine Chelmsford.

Against India, location are plentifulness of players tin of specified performances - Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur to sanction a few. It will not beryllium nan aforesaid lawsuit of taking 1 wicket to specify a game, and Matthews' efforts propose this is simply a situation they are desperately successful request of.

"I deliberation we've astir apt created it ourselves successful galore ways," Edwards said erstwhile asked astir whether her broadside had been put nether immoderate unit during nan series.

"Competition for action successful region cricket, going into region cricket and having to perform, and past evidently wrong this broadside now, making judge they are taking nan opportunities."

The world's number one-ranked bowler Sophie Ecclestone made headlines during nan Ashes aft her refusal to do a pre-match question and reply pinch erstwhile team-mate Hartley, who had criticised England's fittingness aft their T20 World Cup exit.

The 26-year-old was near retired for nan West Indies bid arsenic portion of her betterment from a knee injury, but has since played 2 50-over matches and six T20s for Lancashire, and England insisted her omission was not successful narration to nan winter's controversy.

She has since taken a break from home cricket to prioritise her wellbeing and to negociate a quad problem, but remains disposable for action for nan India series.

In her absence, however, chap left-arm spinner Linsey Smith has shone pinch 7 wickets successful 2 matches including a five-wicket haul connected her ODI debut which has near Edwards pinch a beautiful important action headache, but a luxurious one.

There is nary logic why England could not play 2 left-arm spinners, peculiarly fixed they connection specified different attributes. Ecclestone's tallness generates a batch much bounce, while Smith is skiddier and her spot comes from her accuracy.

In nan 2 ODIs she played, Smith would person deed nan stumps pinch a series-high 45.8% of deliveries and her system complaint of 3.15 runs per complete was comfortably nan lowest.

England's rotation trio of Ecclestone, off-spinner Charlie Dean and leg-spinner Sarah Glenn person played together 25 times successful T20s but only doubly successful ODIs. The World Cup successful India, though, could supply further opportunity for Smith erstwhile she has antecedently been kept retired of nan broadside because of Ecclestone's brilliance opinionated successful her way.

Edwards called for greater title for places, aft accusations of complacency followed nan Ashes, and this has instantly been delivered and gives moreover much value to nan upcoming games against India. She hinted post-series that each 4 of Ecclestone, Smith, Glenn and Dean could spell to nan World Cup.

Fielding has been 1 of England's biggest areas for improvement, pinch six drops seeing them prematurely knocked retired successful T20 World Cup group shape and 7 connected time 1 of nan Ashes Test alone.

They took 38 catches successful this bid but still dropped 13 chances, giving them a 75% drawback efficiency. That is up from nan 41% astatine nan T20 World Cup successful October and 63% successful nan Ashes, and connected par pinch nan 73% successful location matches since 2020.

Their assemblage connection and demeanour was besides criticised, pinch Lewis' carefree attack lending itself to accusations of players not caring capable astir nan results.

Under their caller leadership, England do look re-energised pinch a buzz successful nan section and nan caller aliases returning faces for illustration Smith and Issy Wong, who played 2 of nan T20s, contributing to that alteration successful energy. Edwards said training "had been awesome to beryllium at".

But considering nan quality successful circumstances - England were losing heavy successful Australia and winning by hardly breaking a sweat against West Indies - we are still nary clearer connected whether that will alteration nether pressure.

"We're nether nary illusions that we're going to person tougher times ahead," Edwards acknowledged.

"But arsenic I deliberation what we're seeing already is that appetite for wanting to support getting better, because they've sewage to, they cognize they can't guidelines still, there's astir apt personification successful region cricket scoring runs who's winning games of cricket.

"It's going to beryllium difficult picking teams going forward, but that's nan spot we wanted to be, we didn't want to beryllium picking for 15 aliases 16 players, we wanted to beryllium picking from a excavation of 25 players which I genuinely deliberation we are now."

Only Matthews has put England's bowlers to nan sword, but moreover connected those occasions it ne'er felt for illustration they were successful threat of losing.

The power and humidity of India's World Cup is wherever this will really beryllium put to nan test. Every crippled will matter and England will beryllium good alert of nan attraction that will beryllium connected them to put things correct aft nan Ashes.