West Indies’ Deandra Dottin throughout a match in opposition to Australia throughout Girls’s Cricket World Cup at The Cooper Associates County Floor, Taunton, Britain on June 26, 2017.
Motion Pictures by way of Reuters/Peter Cziborra Cricket, file
Barbados all-rounder and Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) Girls’s Captain Deandra Dottin has been named in a 15-woman West Indies squad for the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) Girls’s Twenty/20 World Cup, which can now be performed within the United Arab Emirates from Oct. 3-20.
Dottin, 33, at present holds the report for the quickest century in girls’s T20 internationals. She just lately confirmed her want to return to the Windies setup after having introduced her retirement on her worldwide profession in 2022.
Nonetheless, in an interview, Dottin stated she missed taking part in for the regional workforce and expressed her aim to win the upcoming T20 World Cup title.
“Cricket is one thing I really like, take pleasure in and play with a powerful ardour and willpower,” Dottin stated.
“There’s a World Cup developing across the nook as effectively and I feel I is usually a massive asset again on the workforce. I may help the West Indies attain far into the World Cup and hopefully win it as effectively.”
The West Indies squad was introduced throughout a Cricket West Indies (CWI) press convention in Antigua just lately. The workforce might be led by the spectacular, 26-year-old Barbadian, Hayley Matthews, who’s the main girls’s T20 all-rounder on this planet. She additionally obtained the award for the ICC’s T20 Girls’s Participant of the 12 months for 2023.
Matthews may have skilled wicket-keeper/batter Shemaine Campbelle as her deputy within the squad.
The West Indies workforce additionally contains former skipper Stafanie Taylor, skilled seamers Aaliyah Alleyne and Shamilia Connell, in addition to spinners Afy Fletcher and Karishma Ramharack. Left-arm spinner Zaida James alongside off-spinner Ashmini Munisar with St. Lucia’s Nerissa Crafton, being the one uncapped participant within the squad
The Windies Girls are in Group B of the T20 World Cup alongside Bangladesh, England, Scotland and South Africa.
The Windies will start their marketing campaign in opposition to South Africa on Oct. 4 in Dubai, earlier than dealing with Scotland, Bangladesh and England of their remaining matches.
West Indies Girls’s T20 World Cup Full Squad:
Hayley Matthews (captain), Shemaine Campbelle (vice-captain), Aaliyah Alleyne, Shamilia Connell, Nerissa Crafton, Deandra Dottin, Afy Fletcher, Chinelle Henry, Zaida James, Qiana Joseph, Mandy Mangru, Ashmini Muni- sar, Chedean Nation, Karishma Ramharack, Stafanie Taylor.
