England captain Heather Knight wants more Test match cricket
Tuesday 7 June 2016 16:29, UK
Captain Heather Knight hopes there will be more opportunities for England’s women to play Test cricket in the years ahead.
Knight was appointed England skipper last week, stepping up from vice -captain following the international retirement of predecessor Charlotte Edwards last month.
Just five of Knight's 93 international appearances have been in the longer form of the game. Four of those have been against Australia - the most recent of which was at Canterbury in last summer's Women's Ashes - with the other Test match coming against India in August 2014 .
"I've always said as a player I absolutely love playing Test cricket," Knight told Sky Sports News HQ. "And because we don't play it very often it's even more exciting when we do play it and I absolutely love it.
"But that is something for the administrators to decide and obviously we have had our success in one-day cricket both commercially and in the media. I just turn up in my cricket gear, whatever colour I'm told to be in."
Following England's semi-final loss to Australia during the Women's World Twenty20 earlier this year, head coach Mark Robinson, who was appointed last November, called for his players "to get fitter and toughen up a little bit".
"You're always looking to improve as an international cricketer and fitness is one of those things you can get an easy gain in," Knight added.
"I think we could have improved it and got a few extra percentages and hopefully now we have done that."
