ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow and Cher­ry Ann Fras­er have been in­clud­ed in the West In­dies women's squad to com­pete against Bangladesh in their up­com­ing in­au­gur­al bi­lat­er­al white-ball tour of the West In­dies from Jan­u­ary 19-31.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) on Wednes­day an­nounced the women’s squad via a re­lease which al­so stat­ed that Stafanie Tay­lor is still re­cov­er­ing from a knee in­jury.

A se­ries vic­to­ry is al­so in the sights of West In­dies cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews, with her team seek­ing au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the 2025 ODI World Cup.

Un­der the lead­er­ship of Matthews, the se­lect­ed squad rep­re­sents a blend of sea­soned cam­paign­ers and ea­ger new­com­ers.

While Stafanie Tay­lor is still re­cov­er­ing from a knee in­jury, Glas­gow and Fras­er, who re­cent­ly had suc­cess­ful stints in state crick­et in Tas­ma­nia, have been in­clud­ed.

The tour will fea­ture three CG Unit­ed One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als and three T20 In­ter­na­tion­als, all sched­uled to take place at Warn­er Park in Bas­seterre, St Kitts.

This marks the West In­dies Women’s first-ever bi­lat­er­al se­ries against Bangladesh, and it is Bangladesh’s first bi­lat­er­al se­ries tour of the Caribbean, as both teams con­tin­ue their prepa­ra­tion for up­com­ing ICC events.

Crick­et West In­dies’ Di­rec­tor of Crick­et Miles Bas­combe wel­comed the se­ries: “We are pleased to wel­come Bangladesh for an ex­cit­ing white-ball se­ries. This tour is sig­nif­i­cant for mul­ti­ple rea­sons as it strength­ens our bi­lat­er­al crick­et re­la­tion­ships, pro­vides our team valu­able match prac­tice, and of­fers op­por­tu­ni­ties for vi­tal ICC Women’s Cham­pi­onship points."

He added, “We’ve seen Bangladesh’s progress in re­cent years, and these match­es will be cru­cial for both teams. We are par­tic­u­lar­ly ex­cit­ed about show­cas­ing our women’s team to a larg­er home au­di­ence, giv­ing crick­et fans through­out the re­gion a chance to see in­ter­na­tion­al women’s crick­et up close. These bi­lat­er­al se­ries are es­sen­tial for the con­tin­ued de­vel­op­ment of women’s crick­et world­wide and in our re­gion. We ex­pect some high­ly com­pet­i­tive match­es across both for­mats.”

The two teams last met in the group stage of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 in the UAE on Oc­to­ber 10, where West In­dies Women se­cured an eight-wick­et vic­to­ry at the Shar­jah Crick­et Sta­di­um. Pre­vi­ous­ly, their last T20I clash was on No­vem­ber 9, 2018, at Guyana’s Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um dur­ing that year’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in the Caribbean.

Their last ODI meet­ing, which took place near­ly three years ago in New Zealand on March 18, 2022, re­sult­ed in a four-run vic­to­ry for the West In­dies. Over­all, the two teams have met five times in in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion—four times in T20Is and once in an ODI—and West In­dies are yet to taste de­feat.

West In­dies Women’s head coach Shane Deitz com­ment­ed: “Bangladesh’s vis­it comes at an ide­al time in our prepa­ra­tion cy­cle. They’re a skilled unit that has shown im­pres­sive growth, and this se­ries gives us an ex­cel­lent op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­am­ine our squad depth and con­tin­ue to im­ple­ment our ag­gres­sive, flam­boy­ant brand of West In­di­an crick­et."

He con­tin­ued, “We have been fo­cus­ing on spe­cif­ic ar­eas of im­prove­ment in our train­ing and tour­ing, and these match­es will help us gauge our progress. The con­di­tions at Warn­er Park will chal­lenge both teams and make for com­pelling crick­et. I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing how some of our younger and less-ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers re­spond to the test.”

Games will be broad­cast on ES­PN Caribbean, while ad­mis­sion to the venue is free.

West In­dies Women's Squad:

Hay­ley Matthews (cap­tain), She­maine Camp­belle (vice-cap­tain), Aaliyah Al­leyne, Ner­is­sa Crafton, De­an­dra Dot­tin, Afy Fletch­er, Cher­ry Ann Fras­er, Shabi­ka Gajn­abi, Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow, Chinelle Hen­ry, Zai­da James, Qiana Joseph, Mandy Man­gru, Ash­mi­ni Mu­nis­ar, Kar­ish­ma Ramharack.

Team Man­age­ment Unit:

Shane Deitz (head coach), Sheena Good­ing (man­ag­er), Ryan Austin (as­sis­tant coach), Damien Wright (as­sis­tant coach), Gary Belle (team an­a­lyst), An­gel­i­ca Hold­er (phys­io­ther­a­pist), An­to­nia Bur­ton (strength & con­di­tion­ing coach), Dr. Na­dine Sam­my (per­for­mance coach), John Phillips (me­dia & con­tent of­fi­cer).

Sched­ule (East­ern Caribbean Time):

At Warn­er Park, St Kitts

ODIs:

1st ODI - Jan­u­ary 19, 2 pm

2nd ODI -Jan­u­ary 21, 2 pm

3rd ODI - Jan­u­ary 24, 2 pm

T20Is:

1st T20I - Jan­u­ary 27, 6 pm

2nd T20I - Jan­u­ary 29, 6 pm

3rd T20I - Jan­u­ary 31, 6 pm

(Cour­tesy CWI Me­dia)