ST JOHN'S–Two un­capped play­ers have been named in a squad of 18, to at­tend a train­ing camp in Ja­maica next month, ahead of the One-day In­ter­na­tion­al Home Se­ries be­tween West In­dies Women and Eng­land Women.

Er­va Gid­dings, a 30-year-old all-rounder from Guyana, and Akeira Pe­ters, a 22-year-old medi­um-pac­er from Grena­da, have been asked to at­tend the camp which runs from Sep­tem­ber 16 to 30.

The bulk of the train­ing out­fit com­pris­es mem­bers of the squad which won the Women's World Twen­ty20 tro­phy, the likes of Meris­sa Aguilleira, De­an­dra Dot­tin, Stafanie Tay­lor and Anisa Mo­hammed.

The camp will al­so mark the re­turn of left-hand­ed all-rounder Shanel Da­ley to the fold fol­low­ing a near two-year ab­sence, due to a knee in­jury.

"We are hap­py to wel­come back Shanel. She was one of the top ODI and T20I bowlers in the Caribbean and was al­so high­ly rat­ed in the ICC Women Play­ers' Rank­ings," said Court­ney Browne, Chair­man of the Se­lec­tion Pan­el.

"Shanel brings a wealth of ex­pe­ri­ence back to the squad and will high­ly chal­lenge for a place in the fi­nal 13."

The se­ries against Eng­land Women com­pris­es five ODIs, the last three of which will count to­wards the ICC Women's Cham­pi­onship, to be con­test­ed be­tween Oc­to­ber 8 and 19 at the Trelawny Mul­ti­plex and Sabi­na Park in Ja­maica.

The ICC Women's Cham­pi­onship is a mul­ti-year, bi­lat­er­al com­pe­ti­tion be­tween the top eight in­ter­na­tion­al women's sides that will lead to au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the top four teams to next year's ICC Women's World Cup to be host­ed by the Eng­land & Wales Crick­et Board.

"The squad of 18 com­pris­es mem­bers of our Women's World Twen­ty20-win­ning squad, along with oth­er tal­ent­ed play­ers from the re­cent Re­gion­al Women's Tour­na­ment played in Guyana," said Browne.

"The Se­lec­tion Pan­el will re­duce the squad to 13 at the end of the train­ing camp, as we look for­ward to a high­ly com­pet­i­tive se­ries against Eng­land Women".

The Windies Women are cur­rent­ly sec­ond in the stand­ings on 20 points–four be­hind cur­rent ODI World cham­pi­ons Aus­tralia Women–and one ahead of Eng­land Women.They are due to com­plete their sched­ule of ICC Women's Cham­pi­onship match­es in No­vem­ber on the road against In­dia Women.

CMC

TRAIN­ING SQUAD

Meris­sa Aguilleira, She­maine Camp­belle, Shamil­ia Con­nell, Brit­ney Coop­er, Shanel Da­ley, De­an­dra Dot­tin, Afy Fletch­er, Er­va Gid­dings, Sta­cy-Ann King, Ky­cia Knight, Hay­ley Matthews, Anisa Mo­hammed, Chedean Na­tion, Akeira Pe­ters, Shaqua­na Quin­tyne, Shak­era Sel­man, Tremayne Smartt, Stafanie Tay­lor.