BIRM­ING­HAM, Eng­land – When the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup be­gins at Edg­bas­ton on June 12, West In­di­an of­fi­cials Jacque­line Williams and Can­dace La Bor­de will take their place among an elite all-women pan­el of match of­fi­cials, with Williams mark­ing her fifth ap­pear­ance and La Bor­de get­ting her first taste of T20 ac­tion on crick­et’s grand­est glob­al stage.

Williams, one of the most re­spect­ed um­pires in in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et, joins fel­low vet­er­an Kim Cot­ton as the pair pre­pare to reach the mile­stone of five T20 World Cups.

To­geth­er, they have over­seen 19 match­es at pre­vi­ous edi­tions of the tour­na­ment, a tes­ta­ment to their con­sis­ten­cy and com­mand un­der pres­sure.

The 2026 tour­na­ment will see the third con­sec­u­tive ap­point­ment of an all-fe­male Emi­rates ICC In­ter­na­tion­al Pan­el of Match Of­fi­cials, re­flect­ing what the ICC calls “the re­mark­able growth of the women’s game” and a broad­er push for ex­cel­lence across every facet of the sport.

The Ja­maican Williams is part of a 14-strong um­pir­ing ros­ter that in­cludes four debu­tants, in­clud­ing Trinida­di­an La Bor­de, Gay­athri Venu­gopalan, Ker­rin Klaaste and Shathi­ra Jakir Jesy, all of whom al­so of­fi­ci­at­ed at the ICC Women’s Crick­et World Cup 2025.

The group will be sup­port­ed by four match ref­er­ees, in­clud­ing re­turn­ing of­fi­cials Shan­dré Fritz, GS Lak­sh­mi and Michell Pereira, with New Zealand’s Trudy An­der­son com­plet­ing the ref­er­ee­ing team.

Aus­tralian um­pire Claire Polosak will stand in her sixth T20 World Cup, hav­ing al­ready of­fi­ci­at­ed 22 match­es at the tour­na­ment, more than any oth­er um­pire.

ICC CEO San­jog Gup­ta hailed the se­lec­tions, not­ing that “com­pre­hen­sive, holis­tic and ev­i­dence-based” as­sess­ments un­der­pin the ap­point­ments. “We are de­light­ed to see the progress made by these of­fi­cials and the el­e­vat­ed stan­dards of of­fi­ci­at­ing they demon­strat­ed dur­ing ICC CWC 2025,” he said.