“What we need to do is be in that collective in each game, be consistent”
“We had our meeting and we said that to be competitive we have to be scoring over two hundred runs,” Taylor said. “In the two games that we played we didn’t do so. So that’s something that we’ve had a look at and, moving forward, that’s something that we need to work at.”
“When it comes down to the longer format, we just need to spend more time out there in the middle,” Taylor added. “That’s an area that we’ve been falling down a lot in, rotating the strike and try to build more partnerships. We haven’t been building a lot of partnerships so hence the reason why we keep falling down in that department.”
“The other batters are starting to contribute,” Taylor said. “What we need to do is be in that collective in each game, be consistent. That’s something that I’ve talked about a lot, being consistent, not just one or two batters always performing and probably looking at how teams are playing, a lot more fifties, batters stepping up and taking that responsibility. As batters we have to do that more consistently.”
But Taylor said that whether the White Ferns would carry any added pressure into their match as tournament hosts was irrelevant.
“We don’t talk about if they’re under pressure,” she said. “I think that’s for them. We try to zone in on us and what we need to do to perform well.”
Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo