Courageous misplaced two shut video games to London Spirit and Manchester Originals both aspect of a tie with Northern Superchargers to start out the season however, other than their solitary win of the season in a rain-affected conflict with Oval Invincibles, they fell away badly.
Fireplace’s direct path to Sunday’s closing at Lord’s was confirmed a couple of hours later, with Oval Invincibles unable to raised their internet run-rate in beating Trent Rockets by 5 wickets. That left Invincibles to face London Spirit in Saturday’s eliminator, and Southern Courageous to select over an underwhelming marketing campaign.
“The beginning was significantly onerous as a result of we performed properly and we did not win,” Edwards advised ESPNcricinfo. “After which the again 4 video games we in all probability have not performed properly. When you do not begin the competitors as properly after which you do not finish it properly, you are in all probability going to be sat within the place we’re in.
“In numerous video games we have bowled properly or we have batted properly, however we’ve not put a whole sport collectively and what I’ve discovered this season within the Hundred is the groups are getting stronger, the depth in every crew is getting increasingly more and should you’re not fairly on it, you are going to get harm and lose video games of cricket, which we have finished frequently in the intervening time.”
Whereas the fact of Courageous’s failed title defence was nonetheless uncooked, Edwards stated a full evaluation of what went mistaken and the way the aspect may flip that round would not occur till the tip of this 12 months.
By that point, she hopes extra can be identified concerning the 2025 version of the event, with the ECB looking for personal funding forward of the brand new season’s begin.
“We’ll go away and assessment what we have finished up to now, areas we have to enhance, areas that we have finished very well. I believe that is essential, as a result of it is simple to gloss over these,” she stated. “I will not attempt to be too emotional and become involved in that proper now however the backside line is we have to be higher than we have been this 12 months.”
Edwards, who will coach Hampshire’s Tier 1 crew within the prime degree of the restructured ladies’s home competitors subsequent 12 months, has had her contract with Sydney Sixers prolonged for one more two WBBL seasons.
And she or he is for certain she needs to proceed as coach at Southern Courageous and Mumbai Indians, who didn’t defend their WPL title this 12 months once they have been eradicated by eventual champions Royal Challengers Bangalore.
“I believe I am out of contract immediately [Wednesday] with the Courageous, so hopefully they will re-sign me and it hasn’t gone too badly this 12 months,” she stated. “And at Mumbai, I will be hopefully trying to re-sign there.
“It is a good time to be concerned as a participant and as a coach. I’ve beloved my time in India, hopefully trying to renegotiate that contract however we’ll have to attend and see.”
“It needs to be three home windows for me and that is WPL, Hundred and WBBL,” Edwards stated. “They’re the three largest comps. That is no disrespect to all the opposite comps, however I believe they’re the three largest comps in ladies’s cricket. They’re so essential for the expansion of the sport.
“I am completely sure that with three comps that solely final a month every, there’s 9 months of the 12 months to play worldwide cricket. That actually can be my suggestion, as a result of we would like the perfect gamers enjoying worldwide cricket and we would like the perfect gamers enjoying franchise cricket. It is a no-brainer for me.”
Valkerie Baynes is a normal editor, ladies’s cricket, at ESPNcricinfo
