“I remember thinking, ‘Gosh, how do you even bowl to that?'” said Dean, who said the mood in England’s camp has been “pretty optimistic” despite losing the only uninterrupted T20 by nine wickets.
“I’d really just love to get in among their top order batters and see how I’d get on against the number-one team in the world right now. As a kid, I’ve always wanted to play the long format, I’ve always been better at 50-overs than T20. It’s always intrigued me how I’d take that into a three, or in this case, four-day game.”
She offers a fearless response when asked how England should approach their crunch Test match at Canberra’s Manuka Oval tonight, which they will need to win if they have any hope of reclaiming the Ashes.
“There’s almost a win-at-all-costs kind of vibe,” said Dean, “but at the end of the day, cricket is cricket. You can do all the practice in the world but if you rock up on the day, with a positive mindset and belief, crazy things can happen.”
