Former England cricketer and TV pundit Alex Hartley says she has been “hung out to dry” by the present England group after she questioned their health ranges.
The previous spinner claimed present bowler Sophie Ecclestone refused a TV interview together with her forward of the primary Girls’s Ashes T20 on Monday.
Hartley, who gained the World Cup with England again in 2017, got here out and criticised England’s health again in October after they suffered an early exit within the T20 World Cup following a shock loss to West Indies in Dubai.
She mentioned that a number of the England gamers have been “letting their team down” with their health
As England slumped to a defeat on Monday which handed Australia an unassailable 8-0 lead within the Girls’s Ashes, Hartley mentioned Ecclestone had refused to talk to her because the group continued to present her the “cold shoulder”.
“I’ve been hung out to dry by the England team: none of them will talk to me on the boundary edge,” Hartley advised the BBC’s Check Match Particular.
“The explanation I mentioned that they weren’t as match as Australia is as a result of I would like them to compete with Australia, I would like them to be higher than Australia, and I would like them to win Ashes and World Cups. I am giving my opinion, and I have been given the chilly shoulder from the England group ever since.
“Not all of them have given me the cold shoulder. I don’t want to say that they’ve all been the same, because they haven’t. Some of the players have been absolutely outstanding: I’ve spoken to them in the street, at the ground, wherever. But a few individuals – coaches, players – they literally haven’t looked at me.”
Hartley believes that her feedback on the facet’s health have upset head coach Jon Lewis and the squad however insists that if it is not a basic health drawback among the many squad, the difficulty should be the “athleticism of a few”.
“I’ve upset them, clearly,” she added.
“Jon Lewis has come out and said there isn’t a problem with fitness in his squad, there isn’t a problem with fitness in the England environment. They obviously think I’m completely wrong in my opinion – which is fine, absolutely fine. I’m entitled to my opinions, and they’re entitled to theirs.
“It is my job to say if I see one thing that must be higher, and I did, however the best way that I have been handled since I feel is completely unfair. However they are going to say that my feedback have been unfair, so if that is the best way our relationship goes to be shifting forwards, then so be it… If health is not an issue, then it is athleticism from a couple of, is not it?”
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