1 week ago During the Ashes, Ecclestone made headlines for refusing an interview with erstwhile team-mate turned broadcaster Alex Hartley, who was moving for Australia's Channel 7.
Hartley, who won the World Cup with England successful 2017, had questioned England's fittingness levels aft the team's aboriginal exit from the T20 World Cup successful 2024.
The team's fittingness was taxable of statement for immoderate clip afterwards, but erstwhile Edwards was appointed arsenic coach, she said that the players would beryllium "held accountable" for their fittingness standards and that it was a "non-negotiable".
"[Those conversations] are rather annoying, due to the fact that radical extracurricular the radical don't spot what happens successful training, they don't spot however hard the girls work," Ecclestone said.
"I consciousness similar radical are precise speedy to judge. I don't ever consciousness similar we were unfit, I deliberation that was unfair.
"But we did consciousness similar we could person made immoderate moves successful that area, and we person done. As a group, we are ridiculously acceptable now. If anyone did privation to justice that I would emotion for them to travel into our situation for the time due to the fact that it's brainsick however hard radical work."
Accusations of cosiness and complacency besides followed the squad aft the decision successful Australia, and aft truthful galore years of idiosyncratic success, Ecclestone became taxable of criticism, but says she is present amended equipped to grip the "highs and lows" of planetary sport.
Ecclestone insists that she volition inactive beryllium progressive connected societal media during England's World Cup campaign, which begins against Sri Lanka, arsenic the cricketers question to emulate football's Lionesses and rugby's Red Roses with a location triumph.
England's past World Cup triumph besides came astatine location successful 2017, but they person fallen abbreviated successful planetary tournaments since, astir precocious losing to South Africa successful past year's 50-over semi-final.
Though Ecclestone and England are cautious of looking excessively acold ahead, she is precise honorable astir however overmuch it would mean to triumph the trophy aft specified a hard time.
"The radical of girls astir me, I wouldn't beryllium present without them, they're truthful supportive of me.
"I'm rather unfastened with them astir however I'm feeling astir of the time, truthful to assistance a trophy with those girls and to stock a infinitesimal similar that with them, it's thing I could lone imagination of. It would beryllium similar a occurrence ending."
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