Fraser, Glasgow earn call-ups to West Indies squad for Bangladesh collection

Quick-bowling all-rounder Cherry-Ann Fraser and uncapped fast Jannillea Glasgow have earned call-ups to the 15-memeber West Indies’ squad for the six white-ball fixtures towards Bangladesh at residence. The collection will start with a primary of three ODIs on January 19 and conclude with the final of three T20Is on January 30, with St Kitts internet hosting all of the video games.

Quick bowler Shamilia Connell and middle-order batter Rashada Williams are the 2 absentees from West Indies’ final task, tour of India. West Indies will proceed to be with out veteran allrounder Stafanie Taylor who remains to be recovering from a knee damage, in response to a CWI launch.

Fraser has performed a complete of 12 ODIs and her final look on this format was in October 2023 towards Australia. Her final worldwide look although was towards Sri Lanka in a T20I in Hambantota in June final 12 months. In the meantime, Glasgow has took half in 4 T20Is, final of those was towards Pakistan in Karachi in Could 2024. Although she has been travelling with the West Indies ODI squad on and off since 2023, Glasgow by no means received a possibility in ODIs. Based on the CWI launch, each of them “had profitable stints in state cricket in Tasmania and have been included.”

West Indies are at the moment ninth within the Ladies’s Championship desk, with prime six groups getting the automated qualification for the ODI World Cup in India later this 12 months. With 14 factors from 21 matches, it is unimaginable for them to safe a direct qualification even when they end with a most of 20 factors with a 3-0 sweep over Bangladesh with New Zealand at sixth place with 21 factors. Nonetheless, Bangladesh with 19 factors from 21 matches and positioned seventh might transfer previous New Zealand for a top-six end.

“Bangladesh’s go to comes at an excellent time in our preparation cycle,” West Indies head coach Shane Deitz stated. “They are a expert unit that has proven spectacular progress, and this collection provides us a superb alternative to look at our squad depth and proceed to implement our aggressive, flamboyant model of West Indian cricket.

“We have now been specializing in particular areas of enchancment in our coaching and touring, and these matches will assist us gauge our progress. The situations at Warner Park will problem each groups and make for compelling cricket. I am wanting ahead to seeing how a few of our youthful and less-experienced gamers reply to the check.”

This might be West Indies Ladies’s first-ever bilateral collection towards Bangladesh, and Bangladesh’s first bilateral collection tour of the Caribbean. The groups’ final ODI assembly was three years in the past within the 2022 World Cup in New Zealand, when West Indies clinched the sport by 4 runs. Total, the 2 groups have met 5 instances in worldwide cricket — four times in T20Is and as soon as in an ODI — and West Indies are but to undergo a defeat.

Nonetheless, West Indies might be conscious that they’re coming off two consecutive ODI collection defeats towards India and Sri Lanka and might be eager to finish the six-match dropping run after they tackle Bangladesh.

West Indies ODI and T20I squad

Hayley Matthews (capt), Shemaine Campbelle (vice-capt), Aaliyah Alleyne, Nerissa Crafton, Deandra Dottin, Afy Fletcher, Shabika Gajnabi, Chinelle Henry, Zaida James, Qiana Joseph, Mandy Mangru, Ashmini Munisar, Karishma Ramharack, Cherry Ann Fraser, Jannilea Glasgow

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Fraser, Glasgow earn call-ups to West Indies squad for Bangladesh collection

West Indies ODI and T20I squad

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