England vice-captain Nat Sciver revealed she was 'more sad than happy' on not winning the women's Ashes Test against Australia at the Manuka Oval on Sunday. At the same time, she acknowledged that saving the match became important as England hanged on for a thrilling draw.
Chasing 257 from 48 overs on the final day, England looked on course to ace the chase as 45 runs off 60 balls were needed with seven wickets in hand. But from there, the tourists lost six wickets for 27 runs to be 244/9. It came down to their batting pair of Sophie Ecclestone and Kate Cross managing to force a draw by seeing off the remaining 13 deliveries.
"Test match cricket can be very emotionally draining and tiring but when it comes down to that, (and) you have a chance to win, unfortunately, I feel more sad than happy at the minute. We'll be able to reflect and hopefully take the positives because we played so well to get ourselves into that position and it felt like we were going to get over the line but we weren't able to. Saving it became very important," Nat was quoted as saying by 'The Independent'.
