ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – St Kitts will host this yr’s Cricket West Indies Ladies’s Super50 Cup and Twenty20 Blaze from March 4 to 25.
With 4 regulars within the West Indies Ladies’s squad over the previous decade asserting their retirements final month, CWI is hoping that the 2 tournaments unearth worthy replacements: Anisa Mohammed, Shakera Selman, and the Knight twins, Kycia, and Kyshona.
“This yr’s United Super50 Cup and T20 Blaze will probably be an amazing alternative to construct on what we began in 2023, with the creation of the West Indies Ladies’s Academy and the commendable efficiency of the Below-19 ladies’s workforce within the historic inaugural ICC Ladies’s U19 Cricket World Cup final yr,” CWI director of cricket, Miles Bascombe mentioned.
“2024 is a packed yr within the ladies’s calendar with three away bilateral sequence in Asia and an ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.
“The women have the right alternative to place their names ahead for choice into any of those squads by their performances within the Super50 and T20 Blaze tournaments. We’re all trying ahead to some scintillating performances in St. Kitts.”
The Super50 event will probably be contested at three venues – Warner Park, Conaree Cricket Centre, and St Paul’s Sports activities Advanced – from March 4 to 13, and there will probably be three matches a day within the T20 Blaze – all at Warner Park – like in earlier years.
Barbados are the double crown defending champions, and so they introduced on Thursday that Kycia Knight will lead their aspect into battle.
A notable omission from the Barbados squad is West Indies Ladies’s captain Hayley Matthews, who performs in India’s Ladies’s Premier League T20 event.
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