{"id":193354,"date":"2026-07-14T09:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193354"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:14:06","slug":"knight-wants-england-women-to-play-more-red-ball-cricket-after-india-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193354","title":{"rendered":"Knight wants England women to play more red-ball cricket after India loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71222085\">England great Heather Knight bowed out of international cricket calling for more domestic red-ball games following her side\u2019s 270-run thrashing by India in the inaugural women\u2019s Test at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The host was outplayed in all departments in a match that started just five days after England\u2019s defeat by Australia in the T20 World Cup final at the \u2018Home of Cricket\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>India had a several days more preparation, with Australia knocking the side out in the group stage of the World Cup, but, unlike England, they play domestic red-ball cricket as well.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ |<a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/womens-cricket\/first-womens-test-lords-india-england-review\/article71219980.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> History wears white: How Indian women\u2019s team crowned a landmark at Lord\u2019s<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>And with a Test win worth four points in next year\u2019s multi-format series at home to Australia, Knight believes this an issue officials must address following England\u2019s 16-0 humiliation \u2018Down Under\u2019 in the last women\u2019s Ashes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d love to see some domestic red-ball cricket,\u201d said Knight, the first woman to score a hundred in all three international formats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be a full part of the calendar, but I do think it would help us develop as better white-ball cricketers as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8211; \u2018Value your wicket\u2019 &#8211;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old former England captain, who led her country to a 2017 50-over World Cup final victory over India at Lord\u2019s added: \u201cWhen I was a kid, it was hammered into me to value your wicket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of our younger cricketers coming through are a lot better at T20 than they are 50-over, and they have to learn that side of it&#8230; being able to build an innings or shape a spell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>England women\u2019s coach Charlotte Edwards, Knight\u2019s predecessor as skipper, said she hoped to improve the team\u2019s Test cricket with the kind of training that had led to an upturn in their T20 form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot has been going on in my head over the last few days, and the one thing that I keep coming back to is, what we did so well last winter was we had this preparation phase of T20 cricket and we saw the benefits of that this summer,\u201d Edwards told        <i>Sky Sports.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m now excited to see what we do in terms of our four-day approach to this winter\u2019s training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>India needed just 95 minutes\u2019 play on Monday\u2019s fourth day to wrap up victory.<\/p>\n<p>The match was a personal triumph for India\u2019s Kranti Gaud and Yastika Bhatia, the first women to take five wickets and score a century respectively in a women\u2019s Test at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we were disciplined in our approach towards our batting and disciplined in our bowling as well, sticking to the basics of cricket,\u201d said India women\u2019s coach Amol Muzumdar.<\/p>\n<p>The Test took place 142 years, and 150 matches, after Lord\u2019s staged its first men\u2019s Test and decades on from the first women\u2019s game of any kind at the London ground &#8212; a 1976 one-day international between England and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amazing thing about this week is it\u2019s been a historic occasion, this first Test match at Lord\u2019s,\u201d said Knight. \u201cBut now hopefully there\u2019s not that many \u2018firsts\u2019 left to do and it can be all about the cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 14, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/womens-cricket\/heather-knight-wants-england-women-play-more-red-ball-cricket-india-lords-test-loss\/article71222085.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England great Heather Knight bowed out of international cricket calling for more domestic red-ball games following her side\u2019s 270-run thrashing by India in the inaugural women\u2019s Test at Lord\u2019s. The host was outplayed in all departments in a match that started just five days after England\u2019s defeat by Australia in the T20 World Cup final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HNCtYZ5WcAApHG7.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193078,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193078","url_meta":{"origin":193354,"position":0},"title":"Charlotte Edwards vows to \u2018upskill\u2019 England women for Ashes after India defeat","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 13, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"England head coach Charlotte Edwards made no attempt to hide her frustration after witnessing her side suffered a 270-run thrashing in the inaugural women\u2019s Test at Lord\u2019s on Monday. 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