The 7th edition of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup will bowl off at the Showground Stadium in Sydney, on Friday the 21st of February. The tournament is being hosted, for the first time, by four-time winners and defending Champions, Australia, who will kick-start the proceedings against fellow heavyweights India, at 4 am Eastern Caribbean Time. The ladies of the Caribbean will bowl off their tournament the following day, when they come up against Thailand at the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Stadium, in Perth.
While Jamaican all-rounder Stafanie Taylor, will lead the West Indies to an ICC T20 World Cup for the third time, the team has been boosted by the inclusion of the returning Barbadian trio of Deandra Dottin, Shamilia Connell & Shakera Selman—who were all recently on the injured list.
The seventeen-day-long tournament will also see the return of veteran batter, Lee-Ann Kirby—after more than a decade (11 years & 7 months) away from the international scene—along with the inclusion of young faster-bowler, Cherry-Ann Fraser. The involvement of both Kirby and Fraser coincides with the surprising omissions of the hard-hitting, Natasha McLean, and the promising medium-pacer, Shabika Gajnabi, from the final 15-woman squad.