Nat Sciver-Brunt has performed eight Exams for England and made her first hundred in opposition to South Africa final yr

Nat Sciver-Brunt says there isn’t a further stress on England regardless of report ticket gross sales for the Ladies’s Ashes.

With slightly below a month to go earlier than the multi-format collection in opposition to holders Australia, greater than 70,000 tickets have been offered throughout seven venues.

England’s girls’s soccer and rugby union groups have tasted success earlier than enormous dwelling crowds through the previous yr.

“We are the underdogs, so there may be no more stress on us,” all-rounder Sciver-Brunt instructed BBC Sport.

“The ticket gross sales is an enormous quantity, that comes with much more eyes on us. That might carry stress, however solely from the skin.

“These are alternatives that must be taken. It’s the proper time, proper place and proper second.”

Australia have held the Ashes since 2015 and are the 50-over and 20-over world champions, in addition to Commonwealth champions.

The Ashes collection, which accommodates one Check, three one-day internationals and three T20s, will get below approach on 22 June.

Final yr’s mixed report ticket gross sales for girls’s internationals of fifty,000 has already been damaged, with the report for a person girls’s bilateral worldwide within the UK – 15,000 – additionally set to go.

Greater than double the quantity of tickets for the final Ladies’s Ashes within the UK in 2019 have been offered.

The excessive curiosity comes after a watershed yr for girls’s crew sports activities in England. In July, the Lionesses gained soccer’s European Championship in entrance of 87,192 spectators at Wembley, whereas this month the identical floor hosted 77,390 for the FA Cup closing between Chelsea and Manchester United – a world report for a home girls’s soccer match.

In April, England’s rugby crew sealed a Six Nations Grand Slam with victory over France at Twickenham, watched by a girls’s report crowd of 58,498.

“Hopefully we are able to mimic what the Lionesses achieved,” mentioned 30-year-old Sciver-Brunt.

“It can really feel completely different as a result of there will probably be extra folks there,…

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