West Indies might be with out veteran allrounder Stafanie Taylor for his or her upcoming white-ball tour of India. The 33-year-old is presently rehabilitating from an harm, based on a CWI launch, and won’t be accessible for the three T20Is and three ODIs in India.
Deandra Dottin, who returned to West Indies’ squad for the T20 World Cup earlier this yr within the UAE, two years after saying her worldwide retirement, is ready to make her ODI comeback throughout this tour.
Dottin had final performed an ODI in March 2022 however her latest white-ball kind is encouraging. Based on ESPNcricinfo’s Sensible Stats, she was among the many most impactful gamers within the 2024 T20 World Cup and within the WBBL earlier this month, she had smashed an unbeaten 46 off 18 balls at a strike price of 255.55 to safe Melbourne Renegades’ win towards Adelaide Strikers in Adelaide.
Seamer Shabika Gajnabi and wicketkeeper-batter Rashada Williams are again for each the ODI and T20Is after having missed out on the T20 World Cup squad. It is a probability for them and different gamers to impress the Girls’s Premier League scouts.
“We wish to get extra women concerned with franchise cricket shifting ahead and looking out towards India, it is at all times good to play in entrance of the Indian IPL groups,” Shane Deitz, the West Indies coach, stated. “It’s good for our women to start out getting their names in entrance of these individuals, to hopefully open some alternatives sooner or later.”
Deitz additionally drew confidence from the T20 World Cup the place West Indies certified for the semi-finals. “We wish to take the nice momentum we gained on the T20 World Cup into this sequence,” he stated. “We confirmed that we are able to compete towards the highest groups, which was pleasing.”
Mumbai will host the three T20Is earlier than the sequence ends with three ODIs in Vadodara. West Indies will arrive early in India and can tune up with a ten-day acclimatisation camp. The ODI leg carries essential factors for the ICC Girls’s Championship.
West Indies final performed a white-ball sequence in India in 2016. They received the T20Is 3-0 and misplaced the ODIs 0-3.
West Indies ODI and T20I squad
Hayley Matthews (capt), Shemaine Campbelle (vice-capt), Aaliyah Alleyne, Shamilia Connell, Nerissa Crafton, Deandra Dottin, Afy Fletcher, Shabika Gajnabi, Chinelle Henry, Zaida James, Qiana Joseph, Mandy Mangru, Ashmini Munisar, Karishma Ramharack, Rashada Williams
