Kemp, 19, claimed two wickets together with her left-arm seam throughout the three matches of final week’s T20I leg of the multi-format collection, and bowled her full allocation of overs of their emphatic nine-wicket win in Centurion on Saturday.
Kemp has suffered two stress fractures of her again in recent times, the primary of which prevented her from bowling competitively for 14 months, however Knight insisted her withdrawal from the ODI and Check squads in South Africa was resulting from a surfeit of warning, relatively than a recurrence of the harm.
“It wasn’t initially a part of the plan,” Knight mentioned on the eve of the primary ODI in Kimberley. “We have been hoping to have her out there for all three codecs however, clearly, together with her historical past with again accidents, she’s somebody that we’ve to handle fairly tightly and actually take care of.
“We’re gutted to lose her,” Knight added. “She’s an amazing individual to have across the group, and clearly a massively thrilling prospect for us. However the suitable factor for Freya was to go residence and have slightly have a look at how her again’s going, after which hopefully construct in direction of these Ashes.
“We’re actually hopeful that she’s going to be match and out there, nevertheless it’s a difficult one with stress fractures. You simply should be slightly bit cautious round masses. She was clearly capable of partake in all three video games, in order that’s signal, however the choice was made that she wasn’t going to be in a spot to be prepared for the one-dayers and the Check.”
England’s 3-0 win within the T20Is means they may assure themselves not less than a share of the multi-format collection if they will win the primary ODI at Kimberley on Wednesday, with two additional 50-over matches to comply with in Durban and Potchefstroom, and the one-off Check starting in Bloemfontein on December 15.
With the Ashes looming in January, Tammy Beaumont and Kate Cross – England’s longer-format specialists – are again in competition, as Knight’s staff seeks to finetune their 50-over plans after profitable summer season collection towards Pakistan and New Zealand. A used monitor is in prospect on the Diamond Oval, which is anticipated to supply much less tempo than was on supply within the closing two T20Is.
“We have not performed an enormous quantity of ODI cricket just lately, so it is a format that I actually get pleasure from taking part in,” Knight mentioned. “Everybody’s fairly excited to get into the longer format, and have slightly bit extra time to execute your abilities and construct plans round someday recreation.”
“Clearly with the Ashes, we’re not wanting too far forward,” she added. “Persevering with to have success on this tour is, naturally, going to be the way in which that we will construct into the Ashes. The main focus very a lot on South Africa and what they are going to deliver towards us tomorrow.”
