Veteran batsman Stafanie Taylor, together with fellow West Indies teammates Shemaine Campbelle, Shamilia Connell and Britney Cooper, will star within the Cricket West Indies Ladies’s Super50 Cup and T20 Blaze however West Indies Captain Hayley Matthews will miss the event.
Taylor will lead the Jamaica squad, Campbelle captains Guyana and Cooper takes cost of T&T, whereas Connell will characteristic for reigning double champions Barbados led by Kycia Knight, who stop worldwide cricket early this yr.
The 25-year previous Matthews, will likely be absent for Barbados attributable to her commitments with Mumbai Indians within the Ladies’s Premier League which runs from Feb. 23 to March 17.
“We are going to miss Hayley’s profile and impression within the regional event,” mentioned CWI’s Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe.
“She is our gold commonplace. I’m positive she is going to make us proud on the WPL which will likely be wonderful preparation for her forward of ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup later this yr.”
Taylor, who Matthews changed as captain two years in the past, will oversee a facet which incorporates the likes of Rashada Williams, Natasha McLean, Vanessa Watts and Chedean Nation.
Campbell, can even have the providers of Shabika Gajnabi, Sheneta Grimmond, Ashmini Munisar, Cherry-Ann Fraser, Mandy Mangru and Kaysia Schultz.
Cooper, a veteran of One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals, will likely be accompanied by West Indies gamers Karishma Ramharack, Djenaba Joseph and LeeAnn Kirby, whereas the 36-year-old Kirbyina Alexander performed the final of her 26 internationals 14 years in the past.
Amanda Edwards will lead Leeward Islands who’s supported by Shawnisha Hector and Jahzara Claxton.
Windward Islands will likely be captained by West Indies leg-spinner Afy Fletcher and can have the worldwide trio of Zaida James, Jannelia Glasgow and Qiana Joseph. Pearl Etienne, at age 41, can even characteristic within the event.
“This yr’s CG United Ladies’s Super50 and T20 Blaze has an entire new context as we search to professionalise the ladies’s pathway with the primary cohort of regionally contracted Ladies being signed on from Oct. 1, 2024,” mentioned Bascombe.
The Super50 Cup is being performed at Warner Park, Conaree Cricket Middle, and St. Paul’s Sports activities Complicated which began Monday, March 2, with the T20 Blaze set to get underway at Warner Park on March 17.
