England spinner Charlie Dean is ready to face the “different kind of challenge” Bangladesh can pose during its Women’s ODI World Cup fixture at the Barsapara Stadium on Tuesday.
Both the teams will meet in the format only for the second time.
Dean had returned with figures of three for 31 in nine overs in a 100-run win.
The 24-year-old off-break bowler said the Tigresses have what it takes to trouble the four-time champion.
“Bangladesh’s bowling attack is, I think, ranked number one in terms of the economy that they’ve managed to achieve in the last 18 months. So, it’s nothing to be sniffed at. Bangladesh has Marufa [Akter], with that big in-swing early on and then a lot of different spinners. We have slightly shorter trajectories and a lower pace, but still equally challenging. We’re not taking Bangladesh lightly at all. We’ll try to make them play the big shots and restrict the scoring. I think it would be a different kind of challenge,” Dean said on Monday.
England had thumped South Africa by 10 wickets at the same venue. However, the conditions may be slightly different from what the players dealt with then.
“We’re on a fresh pitch. We’ve got to reassess. But the learnings from the last game was that back of the length seemed quite hard to face as batters. Bringing our lengths back was really key, so no easy drives could get off. And playing these night games, we know that it’s probably going to skid on a bit later on towards the back end. It’s those things that we have in mind going into tomorrow [Tuesday] and then we adapt from there”.
Published – October 06, 2025 11:05 pm IST
