Heather Knight will depart her position because the captain of the England Ladies’s cricket group after practically 9 years, the England Cricket Board (ECB) introduced on Saturday. Nevertheless, the 34-year-old will probably be obtainable for England choice.
Knight has led the England girls’s group 199 occasions since taking on the captaincy position in 2016. She led the group to a house World Cup victory in 2017 in opposition to India and to two different ICC event finals. Beneath her captaincy, England gained 134 matches and she or he sits second on the record of England Ladies’s all-time most profitable captains.
She additionally led the group to a record-breaking run of eight consecutive ODI collection wins together with defeating Australia in the course of the 2023 dwelling Ashes, by which England additionally gained the IT20 collection to attract an exhilarating Ladies’s Ashes that took curiosity in worldwide girls’s cricket to a brand new stage.
Nevertheless, on the again of disappointing performances by the group in final 12 months’s T20 World Cup within the UAE and the latest Ashes in Australia, the ECB has determined to nominate a brand new Captain to steer the group into a brand new period. Knight’s successor will probably be appointed shortly.
Knight stated: “Captaining my nation for the final 9 years has been the greatest honour of my life and I’ll look again on my tenure with an infinite sense of delight. I’ve beloved the problem of main the group, however all good issues come to an finish and it’s time for me to return into the ranks and give attention to being the very best batter and teammate that I might be for the group.
“Heather has been an excellent chief as England Ladies’s Captain. She has led the group by instance as a job mannequin off the pitch, and thru the runs she has scored on it – usually within the hardest circumstances,” stated Clare Connor, ECB Managing Director for England Ladies.