England must improve under pressure, says coach Sue Hawkins

By Emily Benammar Published: 12:23PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Buckled: England led Australia for 55 mins prior to throwing their lead afar i the failing moments Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Currently ranked third in the world, England have what it takes to improved their bronze award of 2006 in India after this year, but carrying thrown afar the possibility of a test-series win opposite Australia in the shutting stages of the last compare at London"s O2 Arena, Hawkins concurred there is still work to be done.

Dominant via the initial 3 quarters, England lost movement with five mins to fool around and the diversion finished 45-43 in Australia"s favour.

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Having clawed their approach behind in to the compare the visitors capitalised on a array of mid-court errors from England and they stole the array win in the failing minutes.

Having seen her side hold such a widespread lead early in the diversion and with the Commonwealth Games right away at the forefront of her mind, Hawkins said: "When we were 9 goals up we should have built from that margin.

"We have to go behind and see at what it was. Was it they stepped up, or we authorised them to step up? My feeling is we authorised them to step up.

"We have to use some-more underneath high pressure. When it comes the Commonwealth Games (in October) there"s going to be ten times the volume of pressure. We need to get the mechanisms right so that when the vigour comes on we"re not going to crumble."

It was a sour honeyed array for England who available their initial win over the Australians given 1981 in the opening compare in Liverpool last week.

Co-captain Karen Atkinson said: "It"s incredibly unsatisfactory since I think this is the initial time that the total patrol have unequivocally believed we can take Australia.

"The patrol feels dull since the errors should not have done such a difference.".