Despite their series loss to India, England’s head coach Charlotte Edwards has expressed confidence in their preparations for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, which begins later this year.

Edwards has only been in the job for less than six months, but the former World Cup-winning winning has already seen the inconsistency of the team under former head coach Jon Lewis.

England were impressive during the white-ball series against West Indies, but faced a heartbreaking result in the home tour against India.

However, England head coach Charlotte Edwards feels optimistic about the India defeats and thinks the European side is in a good position to claim the World Cup title in the year’s ICC event which begins on September 30.

“We were massively challenged (against India) and that’s how we want women’s cricket to be,” said Charlotte Edwards. “It wasn’t a reality check. We know we can beat India.

“We are going into a World Cup where we know if we play our best, we can beat any team.”

England has two players holding on the No.1 spot in the ICC Women’s ODI rankings, with England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt holding top spot in the batter rankings while Sophie Ecclestone claimed the top spot in the bowler rankings.

Edwards suggested the pair were in good shape ahead of the England’s World Cup tilt and said the team were working extremely hard at getting rid of the tag as being a poor fielding side.

“It is something we are working on, we know we have that tag now,” Edwards added.

“Sometimes I get frustrated because we can drop one catch and we are labelled a bad fielding team, even though we have fielded really well otherwise.

“I am confident we can get to a place where people are talking really positively about our fielding.”

The Women’s World Cup 2025 will begin on September 30 with India Women and Sri Lanka Women playing in the opener match. England Women will open their campaign against South Africa Women on October 03 at M. Chinnaswamy StadiumBengaluru.