CF Correspondent

Bangladesh Women’s Cricket team pacer Jahanara Alam and batter Farzana Hoque leaves the country tonight to join the Women’s Global Development Squad (WGDS) that will play six Twenty20 matches on a tour of England, including two each against ECB Super League teams Southern Vipers and Surrey Stars.

Players from seven countries feature in the third WGDS squad which will get to play against world-class players during a one-week tour of England. Jahanara and Farzana were selected from Bangladesh.

Pakistan’s star batter Javeria Khan has been named to lead a multi-nation WGDS squad.

The International Cricket Council announced the third WGDS squad today, as part of its continued efforts to provide exposure to players from outside the leading countries and improve the standard of the women’s game.

The WGDS tour of England is being organised in association with the ECB. The two previous WGDS programmes were held in Australia (November 2018) and England (July 2018).

The WGDS squad: Javeria Khan (Pakistan, captain), Jahanara Alam, Farzana Hoque (both Bangladesh), Christina Gough (Germany), Celeste Raack (Ireland), Denise van Deventer (Netherlands), Brenda Tau, Ravini Oa (both PNG), Abtaha Maqsood, Hannah Rainey, Becky Glen (all Scotland), Sugetha Kalyanaraman Chandhrasekar (USA). Coach: Michael Ndiko (Uganda); Mentor coach: Laura Macleod (England).

 

Fixtures:

Monday, 29 July: WGDS vs England Women’s Academy (10h30 and 13h30) - Cranleigh CC, Surrey