“Disappointing Not To Retain Captaincy,” Says New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite | Cricket Information

New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite has admitted that she was left disenchanted after shedding the captaincy of the ladies’s crew. Satterthwaite had taken a break from cricket final 12 months as she was making ready to have her first youngster along with her spouse and team-mate Lea Tahuhu. In her absence, Sophie Devine was named the skipper and he or she led New Zealand on the T20 World Cup in Australia on a short lived foundation earlier this 12 months. Now, Devine has been named as the permanent skipper of the White Ferns facet.

“It was clearly disappointing to not retain the captaincy. I actually loved the chance to do it final 12 months, it is all the time an actual honour to guide your nation. However I’ve bought a special focus now by way of getting again to having the ability to play cricket on the worldwide degree,” ESPNCricinfo quoted Satterthwaite as saying.

“I am actually excited concerning the problem that lies forward. Wanting ahead as effectively to supporting Sophie, and I’ve all the time, I suppose, been in and across the management group over the previous few years, even when Suzie Bates was concerned. So I feel it does not change by way of providing that management, in that sense,” she added.

Satterthwaite had led the White Ferns in 19 worldwide matches.

She has returned to coaching as each the ladies’s and males’s squads assembled for a four-day camp at New Zealand Cricket’s High-Performance Centre in Lincoln for the primary time since cricket got here to a standstill within the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in March.

“It is good to be again. Good to be again across the women. The banter’s all the time good enjoyable. To get again to hitting balls, and feeling like I hadn’t left to a sure extent, however it’s all the time totally different to be again on grass too, it is a totally different problem,” Satterthwaite mentioned.

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New Zealand is slated to host the Ladies’s 50-over World Cup subsequent 12 months and Satterthwaite mentioned that there’s nothing like enjoying the match in entrance of house followers.

“Would not get a lot greater than having a world cup at house, does it? We’re actually wanting ahead to that, and we have numerous onerous work to do between at times, and hopefully going forward. However we’re actually enthusiastic about what that chance gives us as a bunch,” Satterthwaite mentioned.