Munisar to guide Windies Girls’s U19 for tour of India

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Allrounder Ashmini Munisar will lead the West Indies Girls’s U19 squad for the upcoming tour of India that may give selectors an thought of who they need to be taking a look at for the World Cup, the Cricket West Indies Choice Panel stated on Friday.

Munisar, who led the crew when West Indies Girls’s U19 performed towards USA Girls’s U19 in Fort Lauderdale in August, may have top-order batter Trishan Holder as her vice-captain for the November 13-24 tour. Holder was a member of the Barbados crew on the Commonwealth Video games taking part in matches towards Pakistan, Australia and India.

The 15-member squad for the T20 matches have been chosen after trial matches in Trinidad, stated lead selector Ann Browne-John.

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“As a part of the preparation for the tour, the squad was concerned in some observe matches throughout a seven-day coaching camp in Trinidad. The ultimate crew chosen contained a few of the gamers who participated within the sequence within the USA and there are some new gamers who the panel would really like to take a look at earlier than a last crew is chosen for the World Cup,” she stated.

“The composition of the crew is sort of balanced with some sturdy batters and a great mixture of spin and medium pacers. Will probably be their first expertise towards high worldwide groups and these tour matches will give a greater indication of the place the crew is in the mean time.”

The West Indies Girls U19 can be underneath the steering of Head Coach Steve Liburd.

Their upcoming tour will function matches towards India ‘A’ Girls U19, India ‘B’ Girls U19 and Sri Lanka Girls U19 in Visakhapatnam on the Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Worldwide Cricket Stadium.

West Indies will then journey to Mumbai the place they play towards New Zealand Girls U19 on the D.Y. Patil Stadium.

This sequence within the sub-continent will type an important a part of the crew’s preparations for the inaugural ICC Beneath-19 Girls’s T20 World Cup 2023. The worldwide occasion will function 41 matches being performed from January 14 to 29 in South Africa. The official warm-up matches can be from January 9 to 11.

The 16 collaborating groups will play in 4 teams within the preliminary spherical. West Indies have been drawn in Group C alongside New Zealand, Eire and Indonesia.

FULL SQUAD: Ashmini Munisar (captain), Trishan Holder (vice captain), Asabi Callendar, Kenika Cassar, Jahzara Claxton, Naijanni Cumberbatch, Jannillea Glasgow, Realeanna Grimmond, Zaida James, Djenaba Joseph, KDJazz Mitchell, Shalini Samaroo, Shunelle Sawh, Lena Scott, Kate Wilmott

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