ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies have hailed Anisa Mohammed, Shakera Selman, and the Knight twins, Kycia and Kyshona, for his or her “dedication, talent, and sportsmanship” after they formally introduced their worldwide retirements from the game on Thursday.
The quartet have been staunch members of the West Indies Girls’s workforce over the previous decade and helped them to win the 2016 ICC Girls’s Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in India.
“Anisa, Shakera, Kycia, and Kyshona have all made vital particular person impacts on girls’s cricket, West Indies, and the world,” CWI director of cricket Miles Bascombe mentioned.
“Their dedication, talent, and sportsmanship have elevated our workforce and captivated cricket followers worldwide.
“Their legacies, as members of the title-winning ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup squad of 2016 and particular person milestones, will proceed to affect and information future generations to aspire to put on the maroon.”
Mohammed, an off-spinner from Trinidad & Tobago, leaves the worldwide stage as essentially the most profitable bowler for West Indies Girls’s in One-day and Twenty20 Internationals after she made her debut 21 years in the past as a precocious 15-year-old in opposition to Japan Girls in an ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup qualifier within the Netherlands.
She bagged 180 wickets in 141 ODIs with a career-best of seven for 14 in opposition to Pakistan in 000 in #####, and captured 125 wickets in 117 T20Is, turning into the primary participant (male or feminine) to take 100 T20I wickets.
She can also be the primary West Indies Girls’s bowler to take a hat-trick in a T20I.
“The final 20 years have been actually superb,” she mentioned in a CWI information launch with the announcement. “I’ve loved each single minute of it: the highs and the lows. I imagine the time has come for me to step away from the sport and permit the younger gamers to stay their goals as I’ve lived mine.
“I used to be privileged sufficient to step onto the sector carrying my maroon 258 instances in my profession. I’ve represented West Indies in 5 ODI World Cups and 7 T20I World Cups.”
Selman, a pacer from Barbados, began her worldwide profession in opposition to Eire Girls in Dublin in 2008, and he or she performed 100 ODIs, taking 82 wickets, and 96 T20Is, taking 51 wickets.
The Barbados Cricket Affiliation lately introduced that she had joined its workers as the primary Girls’s Cricket Officer efficient January 1 this yr, and she’s going to concentrate on creating the junior and senior girls’s recreation on the island.
“This marks my closing bow after 18 unimaginable years,” she mentioned. “I’m pleased with enjoying with and in opposition to legends and fortunate to have dismissed just a few. My intention was at all times to encourage and help others of their goals.”
Barbadian twins Kycia and Kyshona Knight, who will flip 32 subsequent month, made their worldwide debuts in 2011 and 2013, respectively.
Kycia, a wicketkeeper-batsman, made 1 327 runs in 87 ODIs and 801 runs in 70 T20Is, whereas fellow left-handed batsman Kyshona gathered 851 runs in 51 ODIs and 546 in 55 T20Is.
“As this marks the top of an pleasant and superb journey, we want to take this time to thank our household, mates, teammates, and supporters for the continued love and help all through the years,” they mentioned.
“None of this might have been potential with out your help and love, and for that, we’re perpetually grateful. Lastly, thanks to CWI for the alternatives granted and reminiscences that shall be perpetually cherished.”
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