Williams, Holder return for WCPL champions

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC):

INTERNATIONAL PAIR of Rashada Williams and Trishan Holder have been drafted back into the squad of defending champions, Barbados Royals for this year’s Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL).

Williams, the West Indies Women’s wicketkeeper-batter from Jamaica, and Holder, a 20-year-old emerging Barbadian batter who played the last of her nine Twenty20 Internationals for West Indies Women in February last year, were picked in the WCPL Draft yesterday.

The international trio of Shabika Gajnabi, Cherry Ann Fraser and Djenaba Joseph, who were a part of Guyana Amazon Warriors last season, were also picked by Royals, along with Barbadian all-rounder Naijanni Cumberbatch.

The Amazon Warriors have stuck close to home and have drafted five Guyanese to complete their squad.

The Warriors squad is completed by Ashmini Munisar, Sheneta Grimmond, Realeanna Grimmond, Kaysia Schultz and Nyia Latchmann, while Jamaican pacer Kate Wilmott has also got a pick.

Trinbago Knight Riders, who had signed up the Indian duo of Jemimah Rodrigues and Shikha Pandey earlier this month, along with the Australian duo of Meg Lanning and Jess Jonnasen, made five picks at the Draft to complete their squad.

They snapped up the retired international duo of left-handed batsman Kyshona Knight and off-spinner Anisa Mohammed, as well as all-rounder Chedean Nation, and Shunelle Sawh, as well as Jannillea Glasgow.

The three-team tournament will be played from August 21 to 29 at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad.