England Ladies have named a 15-player squad for his or her historic maiden Check match at Lord’s in opposition to India this July.
Nat Sciver-Brunt will grow to be the primary English lady to guide out her workforce in a Check on the well-known previous floor which hosted its a hundred and fiftieth males’s Check earlier this month.
Alongside the captain shall be a gaggle of gamers boasting an enormous vary of expertise from Somerset’s Heather Knight trying to play in her fifteenth Check to Surrey duo Alice Capsey and Tilly Corteen-Coleman in addition to Durham’s Mady Villiers hoping to make their Check debuts.
And within the case of Lancashire pair Grace Potts and Ellie Threlkeld, they’re each searching for an England worldwide debut in any format.
Squad
The quintet are 5 of seven gamers within the squad who didn’t play in England’s most up-to-date Ladies’s Check in opposition to Australia on the Melbourne Cricket Floor, in January final yr, and becoming a member of them are Lancashire’s Emma Lamb and Warwickshire’s Issy Wong.
Commenting on the squad choice the ECB’s Managing Director of Ladies’s Cricket Clare Connor mentioned: “We’ve chosen a powerful Check squad below the management of Nat Sciver-Brunt for what shall be one other historic few days at Lord’s for ladies’s cricket.
“Check cricket is a uncommon and splendidly difficult expertise within the ladies’s recreation and I understand how proud our gamers are to signify England on this format.
“For the 11 ladies who will get the possibility to be the primary to get pleasure from that feeling at Lord’s, it will likely be a second to savour.”
FULL ENGLAND WOMEN TEST SQUAD TO FACE INDIA
Nat Sciver-Brunt (c), The Blaze
Tammy Beaumont, The Blaze
Lauren Bell, Hampshire
Maia Bouchier, Hampshire
Alice Capsey, Surrey
Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Surrey
Sophie Ecclestone, Lancashire
Lauren Filer, Durham
Amy Jones, The Blaze
Heather Knight, Somerset
Emma Lamb, Lancashire
Grace Potts, Lancashire
Ellie Threlkeld, Lancashire
Mady Villiers, Durham
Issy Wong, Warwickshire
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