Within the bowling division, Lauren Filer is essentially the most thrilling asset England possess.
Towards South Africa, she didn’t take a very excessive quantity of wickets (eight throughout all three codecs) however Filer is proof that quick bowling shouldn’t be outlined by numbers alone.
She repeatedly rattled the batters together with her fiery brief ball, making them duck and sway or again away from their stumps when it was fired in fuller.
The predicament England have is whether or not they can match Filer and Lauren Bell in the identical white-ball aspect. Whereas Bell took eight wickets in her participant of the match efficiency within the Take a look at, each might be inconsistent within the shorter format which results in a scarcity of management.
They haven’t usually performed collectively, solely in two ODIs the place they took three wickets between them with an economic system of 5.7 for Filer and 6.4 for Bell.
However within the three T20s they’ve performed, they had been more practical with 9 wickets between them with Filer averaging 36 and Bell a powerful 10.6.
Kate Cross has had a stellar 12 months in ODIs, with 19 wickets at a mean of 18 and finest figures of 6-30, and is more likely to slot straight again in if she recovers from the again spasms which minimize brief her South Africa tour.
“The Bell or Filer query might come all the way down to the circumstances. If it is a inexperienced seamer then they could must drop a spinner to allow them to play them each and Cross,” former England batter Lydia Greenway informed the BBC Take a look at Match Particular podcast.
“You would see within the first ODI [v South Africa] after they performed each Bell and Filer, they did look weak.
“If one among them has a nasty day, I do not suppose you possibly can rely an excessive amount of on the opposite one, actually not as a lot as you possibly can with Kate Cross in order that they all the time must play her.
“For me now, so long as she’s match, they must go together with Filer as a result of she might be the large level of distinction, particularly in someplace like Australia.”
