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Cricket: England Women’s new coach to introduce minimum fitness standards [SOUND]

# Cricket: New England women’s coach, Charlotte Edwards, says she will impose minimum fitness standards from next year. The players’ fitness standards were criticised in the Ashes defeat against Australia, which cost coach Jon Lewis his job and Heather Knight the captaincy. The team is returning to action today with the first of three T20 internationals against the West Indies, which will be followed by three ODIs. Edwards says the aim for the series is to perform better:

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