T20 World Cup: Sarah Glenn says England are ready for crunch encounter against India on Saturday | Cricket News

Sarah Glenn insists England have their “best game to come” as they put together for their crunch T20 World Cup conflict against India on Saturday.

Both groups go into Saturday’s recreation unbeaten with two wins every, however England are at present main Group 2 on internet run fee.

Heather Knight’s workforce have loved a powerful begin to the event, successful their opener against the West Indies by seven wickets and the next recreation against Ireland by 4 wickets with some significantly spectacular performances from Sophie Ecclestone, Nat Sciver-Brunt and Alice Capsey to this point.

However, Saturday’s recreation is about to pose a tougher process for England, who are second within the ICC World IT20 rankings whereas India sit in fourth, however leg-spinner Glenn insists their preparations stay the identical.

“We want to play our game for what it is, no matter who the opposition is,” she stated.

“Even against West Indies and Ireland there have been phases within the recreation the place they got here at us as properly, so we have had that little apply of find out how to punch again and we all know we do this fairly properly so we cannot be altering a lot.

“We’re in a very good place when it comes to our cricket, we’re attempting to be actually optimistic on the entrance foot.

“I feel like we’ve still got our best game to come yet, we just need to piece it all together and obviously we’re doing well so far, so hopefully we can do that on Saturday.

“We perceive that India are a tricky facet so hopefully we will get by means of that and piece our efficiency collectively.”

Glenn will probably be seeking to construct on her strong performances to this point on this event after taking 4 wickets throughout the primary two video games.

Her greatest got here against Ireland, the place she took three wickets for 19 runs on a day dominated by spin with three wickets for Ecclestone and two for Charlie Dean, and Glenn admitted she is happy together with her performances.

She stated: “I’m happy, I think I’ve always got a plan in my head and if it pulls off I’m always a bit happy, especially early on in the tournament it helps you settle in, because in the first game I was very nervous.

“I’m pleased with how I’m going, however I do know there’s some challenges on the best way so I’m prepping for that and attempting to be actually proactive, as are the remainder of the ladies.”

Players approached Premier League auction ‘really well’

England’s earlier match against Ireland was dominated by speak of the Women’s Premier League public sale, which was ongoing throughout Monday’s recreation and noticed Nat Sciver-Brunt develop into considered one of Britain’s highest-paid sportswomen after being bought for 3.2 crore (about £320,000) to the Mumbai Indians.

Ecclestone, Knight, Dunkley and Capsey have been all picked up too and Glenn believes her team-mates handled the calls for of the day properly.

She stated: “It was a weird day because some people just didn’t want to talk about it, some wanted to get it out their system, but I thought we managed it really well, to be honest.

“I assumed the ladies caught to what we needed to do, simply centered on that recreation and let what was out of our management simply not get into our minds.

“I thought we dealt with it in a really healthy way and we’re just back to normal now, it was just a one-off thing but I thought we approached it really well.”