ICC Women's CWC 2022 | Amy Satterthwaite single outs reason for her side's poor run
Contrary to the fans' expectations, New Zealand have performed unimpressively in the currently ongoing ICC women’s world cup 2022.
Despite playing at home, the White Ferns have lost four out of the six games they have played so far, because of which they are currently placed at the sixth position just above Bangladesh in the points table.
After losing to West Indies by three runs, the hosts started their World Cup campaign in a heart-breaking manner but recovered nicely by beating India and Bangladesh in the next two games. However, things have south for the hosts after that, and they comprehensively lost three consecutive matches.
On being asked what has gone wrong for the hosts, their vice-captain Amy Satterthwaite has said that although the bowlers have put up a fight in every game, the batting unit has let the team down.
The experienced all-rounder reckons that a team can’t win against gun-sides by the heroic bowling display every time after posting moderate totals on the board.
“We’ll reflect on the tournament at some point, and if we’re honest, batting is the thing that let us down the most and with the ball, we really tried to keep us in the tournament, and we fought extremely hard, and we can be really proud of that.
“But putting up scores of 200-220 odd against world-class opposition, unfortunately, is not enough, and we needed to find a way to get bigger totals on the board”, Satterthwaite said.
She seems spot-on as New Zealand’s batting has been nothing short of disappointing in the World Cup so far. The White Ferns could not cross the 230-run mark in their last three games against England, South Africa and Australia.
The veteran opener Sophie Devine has been a lone warrior for New Zealand as she has smashed 297 runs at an impressive average of 49.50 and a tremendous strike rate of 90.54.
Among other batters, Amelia Kerr and Satterthwaite are the only ones averaging more than 30, which signifies it hasn’t been a collective effort from their batting unit in the mega event.
New Zealand women will play their last group stage match against Pakistan women on 26th March in Christchurch.
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