T20 Ladies’s World Cup 2024: Bess Heath and Freya Kemp each known as into Heather Knight’s squad | Cricket Information

Bess Heath and Freya Kemp have each been included in England’s squad for the Ladies’s T20 World Cup within the UAE in October.

Wicketkeeper-batter Heath and all-rounder Kemp can be a part of the match for the primary time, with Danielle Gibson stepped as much as the complete 15-player squad as effectively after being a travelling reserve as England reached the semi-finals in South Africa final 12 months.

Opening batter Tammy Beaumont and seamer Kate Cross, who was a part of the workforce in South Africa, are amongst those that have missed out on choice although, though head coach Jon Lewis insists the door remained open for anybody not included.

“Choosing groups and squads with this group of gamers has turn into extremely tough and hard,” Lewis mentioned.

“There are gamers who’ve been actually unlucky to overlook out and so they’ll be a giant a part of what we do with England Cricket sooner or later.

“I really feel the 15 gamers chosen give us a very well-balanced squad by way of expertise, youth and most significantly the abilities to manage and excel within the situations we really feel we can be confronted with within the UAE.”

Linsey Smith, who returned to the England workforce earlier this 12 months, types a part of the spin bowling assault for the workforce together with the 2023 match’s main wicket-taker Sophie Ecclestone.

Huge-hitting batter Heath and Kemp, who was the main wicket-taker within the girls’s version of The Hundred this 12 months, will each put together for the match by becoming a member of England’s squad for the white-ball tour of Eire for the one-day worldwide leg, adopted by heading out to the pre-World Cup coaching camp in Abu Dhabi from September 13-24.

This 12 months’s world gathering, which has been moved to the UAE from Bangladesh as a consequence of political unrest, will get beneath means for England towards Bangladesh on October 5, with Heather Knight’s facet dealing with South Africa, Scotland and the West Indies in Group B as effectively.

“World Cups are all the time particular occasions to be concerned in as a participant and I am actually excited by the squad we have now chosen to take over to the UAE,” Knight mentioned.

“It is an honour to guide the workforce into one other World Cup. We’re trying ahead to the challenges and alternatives forward.”

Cross, in the meantime, will lead England in each the ODI and T20 sequence towards Eire subsequent month, which start with three 50 overs-a-side matches in Belfast adopted by three T20Is in Dublin.

The 32-year-old skippers a workforce that includes loads of youth and expertise, with Hannah Baker, Ryana MacDonald-Homosexual and Paige Schofield all in line for senior worldwide debuts in each codecs.

One other newcomer in Georgia Davis is included for the ODIs solely, whereas potential debutants and Charis Pavely, Georgia Adams and Seren Smale are within the T20I squad as effectively.

Mahika Gaur returns to the T20I squad after lacking out on the sequence towards New Zealand and The Hundred as a consequence of a facet pressure, whereas Lauren Filer will function within the ODIs earlier than linking up with England’s World Cup squad for his or her coaching camp.

“The squad has an thrilling mixture of skilled worldwide gamers, these which might be returning to a squad having performed beforehand and people but to take their first steps on the worldwide stage,” director of England girls’s cricket Jonathan Finch mentioned.

“The rising complexity and challenges of managing year-round taking part in calendars for our worldwide gamers presents a chance for these which were pushing for choice to be challenged on the worldwide stage.”

England Ladies tour of Eire fixtures

• Saturday, September 7: Eire vs England, first ODI (Belfast)
• Monday, September 9: Eire vs England, second ODI (Belfast)
• Wednesday, September 11: Eire vs England, third ODI (Belfast)
• Saturday, September 14: Eire vs England, first T20I (Dublin)
• Sunday, September 15: Eire vs England, second T20I (Dublin)

England Ladies T20 World Cup fixtures

• Saturday 5 October: Bangladesh v England (Sharjah)
• Monday 7 October: England v South Africa (Sharjah)
• Sunday 13 October: England v Scotland (Sharjah)
• Tuesday 15 October: England v West Indies (Dubai)
• Thursday 17 October: Semi-final 1 (Dubai)
• Friday 18 October: Semi-final 2 (Sharjah)
• Sunday 20 October: Ultimate (Dubai)

Watch each match of the Ladies’s T20 World Cup dwell on Sky Sports activities from October 3-20. Additionally stream with NOW.