All­rounder Mikaela Jod­han and off-spin­ner Le­an­dra Ramdeen have re­ceived their first call-up to the se­nior na­tion­al women's crick­et team for the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Women's Cham­pi­onships in Guyana from March 14 - April 4.

The se­lec­tion of the two Un­der-21 play­ers was among a num­ber of changes to the team made by the T&T Women's Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (TTWCA), yes­ter­day, hop­ing to cap­ture both the Su­per50 and Twen­ty20 (T20) ti­tles.

One such change is the nam­ing of Re­niece Boyce as the new vice-cap­tain. She re­places Anisa Mo­hammed and will work with reg­u­lar cap­tain Meris­sa Aguilleira while Saman­tha Bis­soon and Caneisha Isaac are mak­ing their re­turn to the team.

The rest of the unit in­cludes some fa­mil­iar faces in Mo­hammed, Brit­ney Coop­er, Lee Ann Kir­by, Fe­li­cia Wal­ters, Sta­cy Ann King, Sha­nia Ab­dool, Rachel Vin­cent and Kar­ish­ma Ramharack.

Al­though new to the line-up, Jod­han and Ramdeen have gained some ex­pe­ri­ence from com­pet­ing on the ju­nior lev­el as well as Boyce. The trio was part of the na­tion­al youth team that won the Re­gion­al U-19 crick­et ti­tle back in 2016 and have been com­pet­ing con­sis­tent­ly well in the do­mes­tic com­pe­ti­tion.

The lo­cal team will face off against the best women's play­ers in the re­gion, seek­ing to re­cap­ture the 50-Over crown from arch-ri­val Bar­ba­dos, who last year beat T&T by four wick­ets in the third and fi­nal round at Ched­win Park in Ja­maica to reign as cham­pi­on af­ter the round-robin com­pe­ti­tion.

Ear­li­er in the tour­na­ment in the T20 phase, Ja­maica beat Bar­ba­dos by four runs in to cap­ture the T20 Blaze at Sabi­na Park. Then both teams fin­ished with four wins and a loss but Ja­maica took the ti­tle by the head-to-head tie-break­er rule.

Team:

Meris­sa Aguilleira (cap­tain), Rene­ice Boyce (vice cap­tain), Anisa Mo­hammed, Brit­ney Coop­er, Lee Ann Kir­by, Fe­li­cia Wal­ters, Sta­cy Ann King, Sha­nia Ab­dool, Saman­tha Bis­soon, Caneisha Isaac, Rachel Vin­cent, Kar­ish­ma Ramharack, Mikaela Jod­han, Le­an­dra Ramdeen.

Staff:

Kelvin Williams (coach), Davin­dra Singh (as­sis­tant coach), Je­lani Bap­tiste (phys­io­ther­a­pist), Mar­jorie Thomas (man­ag­er).