8 March - Dunedin - England player Tammy Beaumont pre-match press conference

Reporter: You would have noted you'd be playing on a used surface. White Fins yesterday sort of turned their game with their spin trio. Are you expecting conditions to be similar? And I guess what's your plan of attack if you do face a lot of spin bowlers?

Tammy: Yeah, I think the West Indies lineup suits a lot of spin in their attack as well. So I think that's something we've got to be prepared for. Having played here last year, I think it also can offer a little bit for our seam bowlers as well, particularly earlier on in the morning. I remember it was raining for quite a long time here last year. So it's something we're going to have to be ready for on both counts, but certainly going to see a lot of spin from the West Indies and we’ve got practice later this afternoon – we’ll probably be practicing a lot of off spin in particular, they've got obviously got three of them in their lineup. So yeah, it'd be key to going well tomorrow.

Reporter: Given the fact you played here twice last year, you just think that will stand you in good stead?

Tammy: Yeah, certainly got some good memories at this ground from playing here twice last year. And I think it's always good to come back to the ground with some good memories. So yeah, that's always a good thing. And yeah, I think there's enough in the wicket for kind of everyone to feel like they can get involved in the game and hopefully kind of go out there and perform tomorrow.

Reporter: Lastly for me, did you feel any extra pressure following your fist up narrow loss there?

Tammy: Not Really, I think, you know, last World Cup we lost the first game against India and pretty much had games throughout. So that's just part of the World Cup campaign. I think we knew taking on Australia was going to be really tough. And I think we can take a lot from that game and how we went about it with the bat and how we're trying to chase down totals and yeah, just tighten up and build into the campaign and hopefully put in a good performance tomorrow and get that first win on the board.

Reporter: I wanted to start by obviously the loss to Australia, is it something that like the Ashes you're just parking and moving on from?

Tammy: Yeah, I think so. I think the Ashes - that's quite a long time ago now and although we didn't quite get over the line last game, I think we saw a lot of improvements, trying to take on their bowlers a lot more and actually really compete for longer periods. So yeah, for us, it's a case of moving on quickly. I think that's, - teams that are successful in World Cups learn to turn things around quickly. Take the positives and leave the rest behind and just get on with it really.

Reporter: And you will have seen Susie Bates yesterday smashing – not out - I'm guessing that gives you a lot of confidence for tomorrow as well?

Tammy: Yeah, I think I was actually a bit busy and didn't watch yesterday but obviously for Susie to score runs on the home ground. You know, great for her and I think so far the tournament has shown it's really high scoring grounds and high scoring games of cricket - so yeah, as a batter that's good to see knowing that you're going to get value for shots and yeah, can kind of build those innings in all the kind of venues that we've got so far. So yeah, for me, I'm rubbing my hands and ready to get out there.

Reporter: And last one for me. It's obviously International Women's Day today. And I was just wondering who were the women that inspired you growing up and perhaps who was your first women's cricket Inspiration?

Tammy: Yes, great question. I remember I think I was maybe nine or 10. And England women actually had a game close to where I lived, local men's club side and I remember going down and meeting Charlotte Edwards and Arran Brindle. I think were my two favorites back in the day. I think cause Arran had like saved the test match in 2005. So yeah, for me, it was pretty cool to meet those people when I was kind of nine or 10. And then when I was kind of 14, I think I played with Charlotte for the first time and I just completely awestruck at how much of a legend she was – and is.

Reporter: After the kind of results that you have had against Australia in the first game, and given that this tournament be such a lengthy one, how important is it for the team to keep the morale up especially with facing different opponents through the course of the tournament?

Tammy: Yeah, I think we know going into it that it's a very long tournament. You know, quite a few of us have been to World Cups before. And, you know, it's not necessarily how you start. It's how you build momentum and how you finish and how you kind of go into those must win games at the back end. So we knew it was going to be tough, there's going to be highs and lows. And for us, it's about sticking together as a group, sticking to the way that we do things. Well, I think we did that to an extent throughout the game and it didn't quite come off but knowing that you know, that's the way we want to go about things, we want to be aggressive, we want to, you know, play with that intent. And yeah, it's about getting around the group you know, there's some girls that haven't maybe played that much and have been away from home for nearly three months now. So yeah, for me, it's all about kind of sticking together as a group making sure that everyone's in the best place they can be in the circumstances and yeah, just being in the best place to hopefully perform.

Reporter: Good job against Australia. It was a tough game and when you lose at 12 - and opponent West Indies is coming in next game, with an upset, when they won it in the last over. So is there going to be major change in terms of strategies England going in - in terms of to see if they can bounce back and score about 10-15 runs ahead In the middle of overs? Because that was the end result - was like assault – two sixes would have made a big difference there.

Tammy: Yeah, I don't necessarily think there's too much to change in you know approach to the game I think although we didn't go over the line. That's kind of the highest we've chased in a chase. I think we could probably have tightened up a little bit in the field and with the ball we rolled quite a few extras so for us I don't think the strategy is going to be too different. Our bowling tactics has been exceptional for a number of years now in both ODI and T20 Cricket and I'm fully backing the likes of Katherine Brunt, Amy Shrubsole, Kate Cross they've all been absolutely exceptional for us - Sophia Ecclestone I think is the Best Spinner in the world in my opinion.

So for me, I think they're going to go really well for the rest of the tournament and I think they'll put some some attacks on the pressure. I think we've seen this tournament so far is incredibly high scoring -higher than any other edition of This World Cup which is great to see. I think the standards going up you're seeing teams, pretty much every team's got someone who's scoring 100 On that day, so it's going to be tough for the bowlers and I don't think we're going to change. We've gone in with five bowlers for quite a while now to have that extra batter coming in at seven and I think the other day it nearly came off with the way that Sophia Dunkley could play in that role.

So, yeah, for me, I'm very happy with the way our strategy is going. It just didn't quite get us over the line last time and you never know if we'd hit a couple of sixes Yeah, maybe it would have been different but yeah, for me, I was quite happy with how that when.

Reporter: I don't when if saw the photos of Mama Ruth and her baby with the Indian players. Firstly, how nice is that to see? And secondly, on International Women's Day what does it show that someone like Bismah will come back and play after having a child and then have a moment like that with an adversary like India?

Tammy: Yeah, I thought it was amazing. I did actually comment on it. I thought it was incredibly cute. And hopefully I'll get a cuddle later in the tournament. I love kids. But I think it's just amazing to see that Bismah has come back so quickly. For me, until probably last couple years I didn't really see it as an option to have a baby, come back and see the likes of Amy Satterthwaite do it and have a baby on tour and now Bismah doing it and coming back so quickly and performing straightaway. I just think it's just brilliant to see and particularly for young girls I think - I look at my teammates retiring at sort of 28 to go and have a family or to have a career and now actually, this is the complete opposite. You can do both and it's just so good to see that. I think it's not necessarily been something that's been done and I don't think it's something that's really been spoken about enough in the past. And yeah, to see that it's great. And it's even better that kind of India and Pakistan showing the amazing spirit of cricket to just create a cricket family for that young girl. That young baby that's on tour and she probably won't remember it but hopefully at the next edition of the World Cup she will and she'll be out on the outfield after every game playing.

Reporter: On a personal note – 3,000 ODI runs you passed in the last match. And I forget the figures I think you're the certainly the fastest – and I'm sure you'll say it's all about a team and it's a little bit of you that was just immensely proud to have brought up to landmark and so quickly?

Tammy: Yeah, I think for me, after the game, you do tend to reflect on a few things. And, you know, I think after 20 games I averaged 17 and couldn't get a look in in the team quite rightly at the time. So yeah, I'm immensely proud that you know, I've turned my career around and in the last sort of six years, gone really well and started to really show my potential and yeah - it’s always about the team is always about performing for the team. But sometimes when you get stats like that, it's nice to just look back and maybe appreciate the hard work paying off.

Reporter: You did mention that this is the highest scoring World Cup and it's probably we're likely going to see a lot more really high scores through the tournament - have you as a batter had any kind of informal conversations with the bowling group on giving them any ideas of how they could possibly kind of curtail different batters and or do you just kind of leave them to their own devices because they are like you said a very experienced group. But do you ever chime in with ideas?

Tammy: Not too much. Really. I think our opening bowlers in particular Katherine Brunt and Anya Shrubsole the Jimmy and Brody of our game for us really and they know exactly what they're doing. The only thing I have said at times is, you know, I obviously stand at backward point and I can see the length that they're bowling and there'll be times where maybe they've gone for four or gone for a few runs in an over and they might be slightly disappointed because their standards are so unbelievably, unbelievably high because of how good they are. That I'll be able to say to Katherine - well actually it was still a good rule that you bowled - they've just played a very good shot or just kind of remind them that what they're what they're producing is brilliant. But on that day on that wicket that batter has done something quite exceptional to do that.

So no, I would never try and tell him how to bowl. I think they've seen me bowl on the net. So I can't comment. Yeah, for me, it's kind of just reassuring them that, you know, I'll tell them how horrible they are to face in the nets every day. So, yeah, hopefully they kind of know that I appreciate what they do for us.

Reporter: Yeah, I was asking more from the point of view of you know, when you actually go in and experience the conditions, do you then tell them you know, what you thought was difficult to face or are those kind of conversations you have on the sidelines?

Tammy: Yeah If we bat first. You know, anyone that spent any kind of time in the middle no matter who you are, you kind of will give that feedback back - make sure that Heather knows it. So that when we go out the baller is quite clear on what the batter's found hard to face- whether the slower balls are gripping - whether the balls turning, whether there's a bit of extra bounce, so that you have the ball fuller or you know whether even – Nat and Katherine are really good at bowling bounces through that middle to try and make something happen and whether that will be a good tactic from that day.

So communication is a really important thing between kind of the whole team and you know, not just kind of the coaches and the players.