{"id":43841,"date":"2026-06-21T05:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/womens-t20-world-cup-how-freya-kemp-dani-gibson-are-solving-englands-batting-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:22:39","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-how-freya-kemp-dani-gibson-are-solving-englands-batting-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/womens-t20-world-cup-how-freya-kemp-dani-gibson-are-solving-englands-batting-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup: How Freya Kemp &#038; Dani Gibson are solving England&#8217;s batting problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kemp played in that dismal Ashes defeat, but soon after her back troubles returned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It meant months of frustration, but time to work on her batting. She played a full summer for Hampshire, solely contributing with willow in hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gibson, meanwhile, missed the Ashes entirely. She, too, had a back injury and the inability to bowl allowed more time to work on her batting through the winter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In particular, she looked to improve her off-side game &#8211; and in the final over on Saturday she twice slammed Scotland&#8217;s Priyanaz Chatterji through the covers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was very leg-side dominant in the past so trying to get through the off side was a work on and it is going very well,&#8221; Gibson told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Lauren Bell and Linsey Smith are England&#8217;s tall and short, spin and seam, bowling yin and yang, Kemp and Gibson &#8211; who were both signed in The Hundred for more than \u00a3100,000 &#8211; are similarly complementary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangy left-hander Kemp hits cleanly straight or, as shown with her two sixes against Scotland, over mid-wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The right-handed Gibson can crunch the ball straight, but is more adept in finding boundaries behind square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It makes their partnership horrible for bowlers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Kempy&#8217;s got so much power down the ground and Gibbo can hit square,&#8221; Dunkley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re a great combination and to have a partnership like that at the end gives us as a top order a lot of confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cly78w77dl3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kemp played in that dismal Ashes defeat, but soon after her back troubles returned. It meant months of frustration, but time to work on her batting. She played a full summer for Hampshire, solely contributing with willow in hand. Gibson, meanwhile, missed the Ashes entirely. She, too, had a back injury and the inability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43843,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions\/43843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}