England spinner Charlie Dean is ready to face the ‘different kind of challenge’ Bangladesh can pose during their Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 league stage fixture on Tuesday at the ACA Stadium in Guwahati.
Both teams will meet only for the second time in this format. The last time they met was in the 2022 World Cup, and Dean had returned with figures of 3/31 in nine overs in a 100-run win. The 24-year-old off-break bowler said the Tigresses have plenty in their arsenal to trouble the four-time champion.
“Its bowling attack is, I think, ranked number one in terms of the economy in the last 18 months. So, you know, it’s nothing to be sniffed at. Bangladesh has Marufa (Akter), with that big in-swing early on and then a lot of different spinners. We have slightly shorter trajectories and a lower pace, but still equally challenging.
“We’re not taking Bangladesh lightly at all. We’ll try to make them play the big shots and restrict the scoring. I think it would be a different kind of challenge,” Dean told reporters on Monday.
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At the same venue in Barsapara, England had dispatched South Africa with a 10-wicket drubbing. However, the conditions may be slightly different than what the players dealt with.
“I think we’re on a fresh pitch tomorrow. We’ve got to reassess. But the learning from the last game was that the back of the length seemed quite hard to face as batters. Bringing our lengths back was really key, so no easy drives could get off.
“And playing these night games, we know that it’s probably going to skid on a bit later on towards the back end.
It’s those things that we have in mind going into tomorrow and then we adapt from there,” Dean said.Published on Oct 06, 2025
