GAW Women announce signed, retained players for WCPL 2024
…TKR Women also disclose 9 players
Surrounded by a number of regional and international stars, Captain Stafanie Taylor will be back with the Guyana Amazon Warriors camp for the 2024 Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL).
Taylor led the Amazon Warriors to the final of the WCPL in 2023 where her team finished as runners-up.
She will be joined by fellow retained players South Africa’s Shabnim Ismail, Karishma Ramharack, Shemaine Campbelle, Natasha McClean, and Shakera Selman.
Stafanie Taylor returns to help steer the GAW Women
The newly-signed players for the Amazon Warriors are Australian batter Erin Burns, who won the WCPL with the Barbados Royals in 2023 and South African all-rounder Chloe Tryon, who was with the Royals at the 2022 WCPL. They will also welcome England batter Lauren Winfield-Hill.
There are seven more spots in the GAW Women’s squad left to fill and six of these players will be selected at the WCPL draft, which will take place in July. The final spot will be the last overseas player, who will be confirmed before the start of the tournament.
Meanwhile, the Trinbago Knight Riders Women’s team have also disclosed their signed and retained players ahead of the upcoming WCPL season.
A look at the faces that will suit up for the Guyana Amazon Warriors Women this season
Their signings are headlined by Indian internationals Jemimah Rodrigues and Shikha Pandey, who will join Australians Meg Lanning and Jess Jonassen as the overseas players for the Knight Riders this season.
In addition, the Knight Riders have retained five of the players who represented them in the 2023 season with Deandra Dottin returning along with Shamila Connell, Kycia Knight, Zaida James and Samara Ramnath.
As such, there are six more spots in the squad left to fill and these players will be selected at the WCPL draft.
The 2024 Massy WCPL will take place in Trinidad from August 21 to August 29, with all seven matches at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.
