Stafanie Taylor, Captain of the West Indies celebrates her groups win throughout the Ladies’s ICC World Twenty20 India 2016 Semi Ultimate match between New Zealand and West Indies on the Wankhede Stadium on March 31, 2016 in Mumbai, India.
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Stafanie Taylor won’t be obtainable for the West Indies senior girls’s multi-format tour of India. The staff will compete on this sequence in three T20 Internationals and three One-Day Internationals (ODIs).
The Cricket West Indies (CWI) introduced that Captain Hayley Matthews will lead the squad. Nevertheless, Taylor stays sidelined as a result of an harm.
The tour begins on Dec. 15 with the T20I sequence on the Dr. DY Patil Sports activities Academy in Navi Mumbai, adopted by the ODI sequence on the Vadodara Worldwide Cricket Stadium on Dec. 22.
The ODI leg carries a big burden because it contributes factors towards the ICC Ladies’s Championship.
At present ranked sixth in each T20Is and ODIs, the West Indies Ladies will face a difficult sequence in opposition to India, who’s third-ranked. Their earlier go to to India in 2016 noticed contrasting outcomes, with the West Indies sweeping the T20Is 3-0 however shedding the ODI sequence by the identical margin.
This tour permits the West Indies Ladies to construct on their spectacular semi-final end within the Dubai ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup.
Alternatively, their opponents, India, lately secured a 2-1 ODI sequence victory over defending ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup champions New Zealand.
Head coach Shane Deitz stated, “We wish to take the momentum we constructed on the T20 World Cup into this sequence. Competing in opposition to prime groups has proven our potential, and whereas there’s room for enchancment, this sequence is a superb alternative to raise our efficiency additional.”
Deitz additionally highlighted the significance of gaining publicity in India. “Enjoying in entrance of Indian IPL groups opens up franchise alternatives for our gamers. This is crucial for his or her improvement and the expansion of girls’s cricket within the area.”
West Indies Ladies’s Squad: Hayley Matthews (captain), Shemaine Campbelle (vice-captain), Aaliyah Alleyne, Shamilia Connell, Nerissa Crafton, Deandra Dottin, Afy Fletcher, Shabika Gajnabi, Chinelle Henry, Zaida James, Qiana Joseph, Mandy Mangru, Ashmini Munisar, Karishma Ramharack, and Rashada Williams.
