Hayley Matthews of West Indies performs a shot through the first One-Day Worldwide cricket match in opposition to Pakistan on the Nationwide Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021.
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Hayley Matthews will lead the West Indies Girls for the eagerly-anticipated sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka in quest of essential ICC Girls’s Championships factors which can go in direction of qualification for the 2025 Cricket World Cup.
The sequence, runs from June 15-21 in Galle and consists of three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and three T20 Internationals (T20Is).
The ODI sequence is a part of the ICC Girls’s Championship, with the highest 5 groups and hosts India routinely qualifying for the Cricket World Cup in 2025.
West Indies ladies are at present seventh within the desk with Sri Lanka on eighth however with the identical variety of factors.
Lead selector Ann Browne-John stated the ODI sequence is “a vital stepping stone in direction of automated qualification for the Girls’s Cricket World Cup.”
“The tour additionally permits the squad, through the T20I sequence, to proceed to organize for the upcoming T20 World Cup, which takes place in September in Bangladesh. The expertise gained right here can be invaluable as they progress in direction of the T20 World Cup, making certain they’re properly ready and in peak type for the challenges forward.”
West Indies ladies’s selectors made one change to the staff by changing Windward Islands all-rounder Janillea Glasgow with Guyana’s Shabika Gajnabi within the 15-member squad that proved extremely profitable on the latest tour of Pakistan.
WI ladies squad consists of Hayley Matthews (captain), Shemaine Campbelle (vice-captain), Aaliyah Alleyne, Shamilia Connell, Afy Fletcher, Cherry Ann Fraser, Shabika Gajnabi, Chinelle Henry, Zaida James, Qiana Joseph, Chedean Nation, Karishma Ramharack, Stafanie Taylor, Rashada Williams, Kate Wilmot.
