Windies Women to clash with England Women on Thursday
The Stafanie Taylor-led West Indies Women’s team will meet England in the first of three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) from Thursday June 6, 2019 at Leicester, England from 9:00h local time. This ODI series is the ICC Championship matches for the preparation of the Women’s 50-over World Cup in 2021 in New Zealand.
Eight nations will participate in the global event and thus far, host nation New Zealand and Australia have qualified while the other six teams will play a series of ICC Championship matches to attain qualification.
Shemaine Campbelle looked solid during her warm-up against England
After a complete 3-0 performance by the West Indies Women in the T20 International series against Ireland, they will now aim to continue in similar vein when they opened their much more competitive series against the defending 50-over World Cup champions, England.
West Indies Women have been involved in two warm-up matches with the England Academy where they have earned solid preparations for Thursday’s clash. The opening warm-up match was gatecrashed by bees while the Caribbean bowlers had a good outing, restricting their opponents to 177 all out in their second match.
Fresh from a maiden T20I century, Barbados Captain and West Indies vice-captain, Hayley Matthews had expressed her confidence in the team of performing well in England. The 14-member Windies Women squad that toured Ireland is the same squad in England that include only one Guyanese in Shemaine Campbelle. The explosive Deandra Dottin will continue to miss out due to her injury.
Meanwhile England have welcomed back trio Sarah Taylor, Sophie Ecclestine and Jenny Gunn in their ODI squad for the first two ODIs. The English squad looks formidable and will be led by Heather Knight and include world-class players in Tammy Beaumont and Danni Wyatt.
West Indies squad: Stafanie Taylor (capt), Shemaine Campbelle, Britney Cooper, Afy Fletcher, Chinelle Henry, Stacy-Ann King, Kycia Knight (wk), Kyshona Knight, Natasha McLean, Hayley Matthews, Chedean Nation, Karishma Ramharack, Shakera Selman.
England squad for first two West Indies ODIs: Heather Knight (Berkshire, capt), Tammy Beaumont (Kent), Katherine Brunt (Yorkshire), Kate Cross (Lancashire), Sophie Ecclestone (Lancashire), Alex Hartley (Lancashire), Jenny Gunn (Nottinghamshire), Amy Jones (Warwickshire, wk), Laura Marsh (Kent), Nat Sciver (Surrey), Anya Shrubsole (Berkshire), Sarah Taylor (Sussex, wk), Fran Wilson (Kent), Lauren Winfield (Yorkshire), Danni Wyatt (Sussex).
