Recent showpieces have been prone to dismissals but in Meg Jones's all-court game England have a potentially decisive asset
Meg Jones has a number of super strengths in this England team. She is the energy-giver, she provides massive momentum by producing big moments and she knits things together on and off the pitch. Perhaps her biggest in the World Cup final against Canada, however, is that she wasn't involved in the defeat by New Zealand three years ago.
She does not bear the scars that a lot of her teammates do. If things are tight on the scoreboard in the final quarter, her mind is not going to wander off to what happened in the 2022 final. Meg's thought process will not be clouded by something she wasn't a part of. It's something that we really shouldn't underestimate because it is only human nature for those who were part of that side to be affected by things that have gone before them.
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