MAIA Bouchier is the first to admit that she overthinks things, so moving on from the disappointment of last month’s T20 World Cup has not been easy.

The England women’s opener dropped three catches as England were beaten by West Indies in their final group game in Dubai, going out of the competition on net run-rate as a result.

It was cruel for a team who had won every game up to that point, with Bouchier smashing an unbeaten fifty in the previous win over Scotland.

A month on, Bournemouth-based Bouchier has joined back up with her England teammates in Loughborough ahead of a tour to South Africa – with a potential Test debut on the cards.

And from the disappointment of the World Cup, she explained that the entire team is doing their best to look forward rather than back.

“I’ve definitely reflected about that game and spoken about it with a lot of people,” said Bouchier, speaking as MCC launched its ‘Batting For a Better Future’ sustainability campaign.

“Those moments will probably happen and I think taking it in your stride, there will always be ups and downs, that is one game in your career. I try to not overthink about those moments as much as possible, because I am an overthinker. The only way you can frame it is what can we do better next time? That is what we’re trying to do, and what we are asking of everyone in the team.

“The conversations going into the tour, people are taking this training camp as a chance to reset and talk about what we can do before we get to South Africa. I think we have a week before our first game once we arrive. So we want to take advantage of talking as a team, we’re doing a lot more work around communication and being honest with each other about our games.”

MCC’s Batting For a Better Future campaign aims to use the Club’s uniquely independent position within cricket to highlight the challenges that climate change pose on the sport.

England take on a South African team who have reached the last two T20 World Cup finals, losing out to New Zealand on this occasion, having knocked out defending champions Australia in the semi-finals.

Beating them on their own patch will not be easy, but Bouchier believes England are in a good place for a tour which has extra meaning for her.

She said: “I love South Africa as a place and I’ve got half my family in Cape Town. It might be a very special moment if I make my Test debut. I’ve worked really hard on my game in the last two years, mostly on the mental level. I’ve worked hard on the skills but the mental side is where I’ve made the most progress.

“It will be a really good challenge, you have seen how well they have played, and how they deserved to win that competition but then New Zealand just came out of nowhere. It’s surprising but it’s really exciting seeing a game like that in a World Cup. South Africa are a very good team at the moment so we need to have the conversations about how we can attack them and put pressure on them.”

Maia Bouchier was speaking at the launch of MCC’s Batting For a Better Future campaign. For more information, visit //////lords.org/better-future.