Windies Women set to resume season on May 26

─ Regional tournaments answers selection questions

After 10 Regional Women’s matches played in Guyana in the Cricket West Indies (CWI) T20 Blaze and Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 tournaments, the selectors who were present at the matches may have seen the players who deserve selection for Windies duty.

Deandra Dottin, the most consistent performer in the Regional tournaments

The Windies Women will resume their international season when they meet Ireland Women for three T20 Internationals, which will commence from Sunday May 26, 2019 and end on May 29, 2019, with all three matches being played in Dublin, Ireland.
After that series in Ireland, West Indies Women will head over to England for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s Championship matches. The Caribbean Women will play England in three One Day Internationals (0DI) followed by three T20 Internationals.

Windies and Barbados’ Shamilia Connell is arguably the fastest bowler in the Caribbean

Windies will meet the Women’s World Cup champions, England, on Thursday June 6, 2019 for the first of three ODIs. The second ODI will commence from June 9, 2019 while the third and final ODI is scheduled for June 13, 2019. Windies Women will play their final match of the tour in England on Tuesday June 25, 2019.
Prior to the Women’s Regional championships, Windies Women toured Pakistan and Dubai, where they played three T20Is and three ODIs in late January and early February 2019. Windies Women won the T20I series that was entirely played in Pakistan 2-1, while they lost the ICC Women’s championship matches that were played in Dubai against Pakistan 1-2.
Present at the venues that hosted the Regional matches were CWI selectors, namely chief selector Courtney Browne, who witnessed most of the action in the Colonial Super50 Cup and the T20 Blaze tournaments. It was seen that most of the current Windies Women players dominated the Regional tournaments.
Deandra Dottin, who was the leading run scorer in both the T20 and Super50 Cup, has been among the wickets and is a certain selection for the tours in Ireland and England. At age 27, Dottin has experience on her side, playing 117 ODI and 110 T20I for Windies Women since she made her debut in 2008.
Windies captain Stafanie Taylor had some solid performances in the tournaments. Hayley Matthews, the Windies vice-captain, is also a likely selection. Players Kycia Knight, Shemaine Campbelle, Natasha McLean, Chinelle Henry, Afy Fletcher, Anisa Mohammed, Shakera Selman, Shamilia Connell, Merissa Aguilleira, Karishama Ramharack and Jamaica’s Rashada Williams were on the last tour against Pakistan.
With conditions in England suiting the faster bowlers, the leading fast bowler in both Regional tournaments, Erva Giddings, will fancy her chances to play alongside the likes of Connell, Selman, and Henry as front-line seamers.
Giddings’s performance was superior to those of the Windies trio. She took 10 wickets of her own in the T20 Blaze, while Henry, Selman and Connell had 11 wickets combined in the T20 Blaze playing for their respective teams.
The squad from the previous tours will not see wholesale changes, but an extra seamer in English conditions will be considered. (Brandon Corlette)