For a moment, Jon Lewis and Heather Knight appeared to be heading into a series with just about their first-choice team, having navigated the start of their New Zealand tour this winter without a smattering of Women’s Premier League stars.
Alas, not quite, as Knight revealed on Friday that all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt will miss Saturday’s opener against Pakistan at Edgbaston after undergoing a “minor medical procedure”. Happily, though, that will be the only game for which England will have to do without the world’s best player, Sciver-Brunt already pencilled in to return for the second of the three T20s next Friday.
