Heather Knight has been appointed as captain of the England womens cricket team, with Anya Shrubsole as vice-captain. Knight takes over from Charlotte Edwards, who stepped down last month after coach Mark Robinson made it clear he wanted to blood new players.Knight, 25, has played five Tests, 55 one-day internationals and 33 Twenty20 matches for England and she was Edwards vice-captain. Knight has been appointed England captain She scored a brilliant 157 in the 2013 Ashes Test at Wormsley, but had a disappointing T20 World Cup this year, scoring just 19 runs in four innings.Knights first assignment will be three ODIs and three T20 matches with Pakistan later this month.Knight told Sky Sports News HQ: Im really looking forward to leading the team into a new chapter. Its going to be a massive challenge without Charlotte - she has led the team for 10 years. Her contribution on and off the pitch has been amazing. To follow that is obviously a big challenge but one Im looking forward to. Knight takes over from Charlotte Edwards Its been a challenging period but one were ready to move on from.Head coach Robinson said: Heather embodies many of the traits needed to be a successful captain - a superb work ethic, integrity and commitment, along with good instincts and cricket intelligence.These assets combined with her undoubted ability as a player make her an excellent role model, both for the team and young aspiring cricketers everywhere. Edwards stepped down last month ECB Director of England Womens Cricket, Clare Connor, added: There is no greater honour in our sport and few more precious roles across the entire world of sport than the role of England cricket captain.Having played under Charlotte Edwards for her entire England career so far, Heather has had an amazing mentor and leader. I am sure she will follow in Charlottes footsteps with huge pride and determination to take this England team to an even brighter future. 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Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistans bowling coach, believes that Yasir Shah struggled with the expectation of backing up his matchwinning display at Lords on the opening day of the second Test.Yasirs ten-wicket match haul was key to Pakistan securing their 75-run victory in the opening Test and propelled him to No. 1 in the world, but he finished the first day at Old Trafford with 0 for 111 from 31 overs as centuries from Alastair Cook and Joe Root led England to a commanding 314 for 4.Although he made a couple of deliveries grip on the Old Trafford surface - two, in particular, spun and bounced appreciably at Root and Cook - England were able to milk him far more comfortably than they had done last week.With only four frontline bowlers, Misbah-ul-Haq did not have many places to turn to for the lengthy spells required to allow him to rotate his three quicks. Yasir bowled 18 overs unchanged - split by the lunch interval - and by the time he was given a break, England had taken him for 69 runs and gone some way towards ensuring no immediate hangover from their poor display against at Lords.Sometimes the expectation does put you under pressure and you are trying to deliver the same performance, Mushtaq said. You start losing your basics, discipline and what he did in the last Test match. He got 10 wickets last time and maybe that momentum carried on and he forgot the basics.I think the ball wasnt coming nicely from his hand, he added. We did discuss it, but during a game its very hard for a coach to tell a player what to do. But we have good communication so I sent a couple of messages because the ball was coming out flatter with less spin. On a first-day pitch, the margin of error for a legspinner against good players like Root and Coook is very small.dddddddddddd.Root and Cook both used the word tempo when pinpointing a key difference to their approach than at Lords, finding the right balance between not allowing Yasir to settle but avoiding anything as reckless as Roots top-edged slog-sweep or Moeen Alis wild second-innings hack.It was just nice to see an improvement on the way we played him in the first game, Root said. Playing him with a straight bat, not going across the ball as much, on a day-one wicket it definitely made it a lot easier for us to take the risk out of it but still rotate the strike and score at a decent rate. We batted at a far better tempo than at Lords.Root, though, did admit a degree of nervousness when he brought out a strong slog-sweep against Yasir in the 51st over, with the captain at the other end, but this time it skimmed to the boundary rather than into the hands of a catcher. Such are the fine margins for batsmen.However, Mushtaq backed Yasir to respond positively from his tough day and play a role on a surface that Cook expects to break up later on. A worthy example to draw on, although not an occasion anyone associated with England cares to remember, is the Adelaide Test in 2006-07. Over the first two days of that match, England racked up 551 for 6 and Shane Warne took 1 for 167 before producing of his greatest displays on the final day to conjure a famous victory.I always believe as a good bowler you have to bowl good overs against good players to get them out. He didnt do that today but he will come out tomorrow, hes a strong guy, he wasnt hiding and thats a positive thing, Mushtaq said. ' ' '