In Charlotte Edwards’s first press conference as England head coach, she was pretty clear about her priorities: “I think we’ve got to look at our ODI game. I think that’s probably an area that we’ve underperformed in for a while.” Perhaps nobody epitomised that more than Amy Jones, who in 12 years of international cricket – including 97 ODIs – had never scored a century.
On Friday at Derby, with Edwards grinning away on the dressing room balcony, Jones punched through the off side for the boundary which finally broke that duck. They say the years are short, while the days are long: the five overs which Jones spent in the nervous 90s felt almost as long as the 12 years which preceded them.
