News Sports WI to play inaugural T20 World Cup Barbados Today Traffic09/12/2022096 views Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) selection panel today named the 15-member West Indies women’s Under 19s Rising Stars squad for the ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa in January 2023. The squad will again be led by batting all-rounder Ashmini Munisar who captained the team on their tours to the USA in August and last month in India. Lead Selector Mrs. Ann Browne-John said: “The Under 19 girls T20 World Cup will be an historic event being the first of its kind in women’s international cricket. In preparation for this the team embarked on tours of the USA and the recent Tri Series in India against the hosts and New Zealand. These series have identified some competent up and coming batters like Djenaba Joseph, Shunelle Sawh and Trishan Holder who are showing potential to transition to a higher level. We also had excellent performances from the two main spinners, Captain Ashmini Munisar and Shalini Samaroo.” She added: “We’ve held training camps over the past few months and the preparation will culminate with a final camp to be held in Antigua this month. This international exposure would no doubt be extremely beneficial, not only to this group of players, but also serve as an investment and feeder group into the senior West Indies Women’s set up.” Captain Ashmini Munisar expressed her happiness in being selected to lead the squad, “It is every cricketer’s dream to play for their country let alone be able to captain their team, it is an immense honour that I get to do it at this historic inaugural ICC Women’s U19 World Cup. We have been playing together for the past few months and all the players are gelling and progressing quite nicely and we’re all excited to represent the West Indies.” The ICC Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup will feature 41 matches to be played from 14th to 29th January in South Africa. The official warm-up matches will be from the 9th to 11th January. The 16 participating teams will play in four groups in the preliminary round. West Indies have been drawn in Group C alongside New Zealand, Ireland, and Indonesia. (Sportsmax)