ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has named 22 fe­male Un­der-19 play­ers to take part in a High-Per­for­mance camp ahead of next year’s ICC Un­der-19 Women’s T20 World Cup.

The ma­jor­i­ty of the par­tic­i­pants have been drawn from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ti­tle-win­ning team that re­cent­ly cap­tured the CWI Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship, as well as Bar­ba­dos, who placed sec­ond.

Sev­en mem­bers from T&T make up the squad, while an­oth­er five from Bar­ba­dos have been in­clud­ed. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, four play­ers from the Lee­ward Is­lands have been se­lect­ed, along with two play­ers each from the Wind­ward Is­lands, Ja­maica and Guyana.

The play­ers have tran­si­tioned di­rect­ly from the suc­cess­ful re­gion­al tour­na­ment in­to a two-week High-Per­for­mance Camp in An­tigua, which be­gan on Au­gust 17 and runs un­til Au­gust 29.

CWI High-Per­for­mance Man­ag­er, Dwain Gill said the im­me­di­ate tran­si­tion from re­gion­al com­pe­ti­tion in­to a high-per­for­mance en­vi­ron­ment was in­ten­tion­al and im­por­tant to the play­ers’ de­vel­op­ment.

“The Ris­ing Stars Cham­pi­onship gave us a valu­able op­por­tu­ni­ty to see these play­ers com­pete, re­spond to pres­sure and demon­strate their po­ten­tial in a re­gion­al en­vi­ron­ment.

“We did not want that as­sess­ment process to end with the tour­na­ment. Bring­ing the se­lect­ed play­ers di­rect­ly in­to camp al­lows us to build on what we have seen, work more close­ly with them and be­gin ad­dress­ing the ar­eas that will be crit­i­cal to their pro­gres­sion,” Gill said.

“This is an im­por­tant first step in build­ing a group that can be com­pet­i­tive at the 2027 World Cup, while al­so de­vel­op­ing play­ers who can con­tribute to West In­dies women’s crick­et be­yond the Un­der-19 lev­el.”

The ini­tia­tive is part of CWI’s de­lib­er­ate ap­proach to iden­ti­fy­ing, de­vel­op­ing and prepar­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of West In­dies women crick­eters for the de­mands of in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion.

Se­lec­tion for the camp was based on a com­bi­na­tion of on-field per­for­mances and tech­ni­cal as­sess­ments, age el­i­gi­bil­i­ty for the 2027 World Cup, tac­ti­cal aware­ness, tem­pera­ment and com­pet­i­tive­ness, fit­ness and the over­all bal­ance and com­po­si­tion of the squad.

The camp will fo­cus on tech­ni­cal, tac­ti­cal, phys­i­cal and men­tal de­vel­op­ment, while pro­vid­ing the play­ers with greater ex­po­sure to the stan­dards, in­ten­si­ty and ex­pec­ta­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with pro­gress­ing to the in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el.

On the field, the play­ers will work with sev­er­al mem­bers of CWI’s High-Per­for­mance coach­ing staff, led by se­nior women’s as­sis­tant coach Ryan Austin, along­side Shane Dowrich, who has been part of the West In­dies Women’s re­cent as­sign­ments, in­clud­ing the ICC T20 World Cup in Eng­land and Wales, and West In­dies Acad­e­my head coach Ramesh Sub­as­inghe.

UN­DER-19 WOMEN PAR­TIC­I­PANTS: Eboni Brath­waite, Dav­e­h­jah Brown, Zaniyah Bruce, CQuinya Dasent, Jes­si­ca Davis, Kaela George, Bri­an­na Har­richa­ran, Sabriel Headley, Al­lia Hen­ry, Thean­ny Her­bert-May­ers, Jadaeya Hold­er, Shriya Jairam, Danielle Manns, Jan­nah Mo­hammed, Bri­an­na Plum­mer, Sian Ram­nar­ine, Sama­ra Ram­nath, Zara Sker­ritt, Am­ri­ta Ram­ta­hal, Jae­da Tyrell, Lean­ga Warn­er, Aaliyah Weekes.

CMC