West Indies’ Hayley Matthews in motion throughout the Girls’s Cricket T20 World Cup match in opposition to England on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Oct. 15, 2024.
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England is carded to play a ladies’s Check in West Indies for the primary time as a part of the brand new Future Excursions Program. It will likely be the primary assembly between the perimeters in essentially the most prolonged format since 1979.
West Indies haven’t performed a Check since 2004 and are scheduled to host England for one Check, three One-Day Internationals, and three T20s in April and Might 2027.
The brand new cycle runs from 2025 to early 2029; England may also play Checks in opposition to India, Australia, and South Africa.
England captain Heather Knight is amongst those that have known as for extra ladies’s Checks.
England is scheduled to tour Pakistan for the primary time in 2027. They had been beforehand scheduled to play in Pakistan in 2021, however the tour was canceled as a result of safety issues.
Zimbabwe has been added to the Future Excursions Program for the primary time.
West Indies will host a Check in opposition to Australia in 2026 and play South Africa within the format in 2028.
Johnny Grave, whose tenure as Cricket West Indies chief government not too long ago ended, raised the prospect of the Windies taking part in a Check on the iconic Kensington Oval.
Barbados all-rounder Hayley Matthews captains the West Indies staff.
“When you might have an iconic participant, who will go down within the historical past of our recreation, in Hayley Mathews, it appears proper she could have the chance to put on a maroon Check cap and lead her staff out, hopefully at her residence floor of the Kensington Oval in some unspecified time in the future in a Check,” he stated.
“Our philosophy has been that red-ball cricket is the place you possibly can construct your method, hone your protection, and look to attain throughout the wicket.”
