Charlotte Edwards is drawing on her memories of playing “for nothing” as an amateur to keep England grounded going into their World Cup opener against South Africa in Guwahati on Friday.
England’s head coach represented her nation between 1996 and 2016, playing 18 of those years before the arrival of professional contracts, and she joked this week that she could “write a book” about her tournament debut at the 1997 World Cup in India.
