Forward of the Ladies’s ODI World Cup 2025 semi-final between England and South Africa, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) offered a key replace on left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone, who suffered an harm over the past match.
England are all set to face South Africa within the 2025 Ladies’s ODI World Cup semifinal in Guwahati on Wednesday, October 28. The staff stays optimistic about Ecclestone’s availability for the important thing knockout match regardless of the left-arm spinner’s harm.
“Outcomes of an MRI scan on Sophie Ecclestone’s left shoulder point out a minor harm to the joint subsequent to her collar bone. She’s going to proceed to be assessed forward of Wednesday’s ICC Ladies’s World Cup semi-final in opposition to South Africa,” the ECB mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.
With simply three days in between video games, Ecclestone was a serious doubt to take the sector in opposition to South Africa, however it’s understood England are more and more upbeat about her being match to play in Guwahati.
Notably, the 26-year-old Ecclestone is England’s joint-leading wicket-taker on the World Cup, having claimed a dozen dismissals at a mean of 15.33.
How Did Sophie Ecclestone Get Injured Towards New Zealand?
The world’s top-ranked ODI bowler Sophie Ecclestone needed to go away the sector early throughout England’s closing group stage match in opposition to New Zealand on Sunday in Visakhapatnam.
In the course of the first over of the White Ferns’ innings, Ecclestone made a few diving stops, and at one level, her knee bought locked to the bottom. She was compelled to go off the sector after the second over as a result of a shoulder concern following a dive on the sector and touchdown awkwardly. She regarded in immense ache, however returned to the sector after the opening drinks break.
Ecclestone rejoined the assault within the twenty third over and took Brooke Halliday’s wicket. However instantly after taking the wicket, Sophie went off the sector, accompanied by the England staff physio to the dugout.
She did not return to the sector thereon, with skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt later clarifying that resting the spinner was a precautionary measure forward of the staff’s semi-final in opposition to Laura Wolvaardt and Co. in Guwahati.
“Do not know something additional, but it surely was a precaution with an enormous match developing. Would not need to danger something,” Sciver-Brunt had mentioned within the post-match press convention.
With Ecclestone’s harm being carefully monitored by the staff, it’s going to be a major blow for the staff if she is to overlook the essential semi-final sport.