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Former West Indies captain being convinced to remain in a mentorship role

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Jan-2022James Foster, previously assistant coach, has been elevated to the post of head coach by the Peshawar Zalmi management. ESPNcricinfo understands the franchise is in talks with Daren Sammy over the possibility of extending his role as mentor.Sammy has been one of the key figures for the franchise since PSL’s inception in 2016, and has been one of the more recognisable overseas faces for the league. He started as vice-captain and took over the leadership following Shahid Afridi’s resignation in 2017.He was an integral part of the team as a player until 2020 when the franchise made a mid-season shuffle by replacing him with Wahab Riaz as full-time captain. Sammy then had a two-year stint as head coach of the team in 2020 and 2021. For the record, Sammy is yet to officially retire from all cricket and hasn’t played any competitive form of the game since the CPL final in 2020.Meanwhile, Foster, the former England wicketkeeper, is a familiar name in T20 Leagues and is fast becoming a constant across leagues, having worked in the IPL, BBL, BPL and CPL. He was also consultant with Netherlands.It’s understood one of the reasons Zalmi were on the lookout for a head coach was because of Sammy’s other commitments as a broadcaster. However, they still are engaging with him to ensure his presence in a mentorship role.PSL champions of 2017, Zalmi have featured in the most number of PSL finals. They are the second-most successful PSL teams, behind Islamabad United, with 38 wins in 70 games.

A round-up of the Minor Preliminary Finals of the Ford Trophy 2012-13

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Mar-2013
ScorecardColin Munro’s aggressive 118 led Auckland to a comprehensive 128-run victory over Canterbury at Seddon Park. The win puts them in the Ford Trophy final on March 31. Auckland batted first, losing opener Dusan Hakaraia with the score on 10. Wicketkeeper-captain Gareth Hopkins and Craig Cachopa combined for 57 runs for the third wicket to help steady the innings. Colin Munro and Donovan Grobbelaar built on that stand with 116 runs for the sixth wicket. The rest of the batting order chipped in as Auckland finished with an imposing 314 for 9. Munro finished with 118 off 81 balls, smacking nine fours and six sixes. Ryan McCone was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 48.A burst from seamers Chris Martin and Kyle Mills reduced Canterbury to 87 for 5. Rob Nicol (45), Shanan Stewart (71) and Cole McConchie (30) were the only batsmen to provide any kind of resistance, as Canterbury’s batting order folded for 186. Chris Martin finished with 5 for 21, and was ably supported by Kyle Mills and Bhupinder Singh, who picked up two a piece. Canterbury will get a second chance in the Major Preliminary Final game to be played on March 27, where they face off against Wellington, who beat Northern Districts.
ScorecardWellington chased Northern Districts’ total at Basin Reserve to book a clash against Canterbury in the Major Preliminary final on March 27. Northern Districts were put into bat and their openers put up a solid 97 runs. However they proceeded to lose their next nine wickets for the addition of a paltry 43 runs. They were all out for 140, with Jeetan Patel picking up 4 for 21.Wellington started promisingly with a 58-run stand for the first wicket. Once Michael Papps fell, Luke Ronchi and Grant Elliott combined for 44 runs for the second wicket. Ronchi’s 76 off 59 had nine fours and three sixes, and allowed the other batsmen to bat around him as he accelerated quickly. Elliot and Jesse Ryder finished things off in the 23rd over, as Wellington romped to victory with eight wickets in hand.

Entire contingent sent into three-day room quarantine again; training set to be delayed

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Dec-2021Bangladesh’s spin bowling coach Rangana Herath, currently on tour in New Zealand with the Test squad, has tested Covid-19 positive on Wednesday, but is believed to have only “mild symptoms.”Eight other Bangladesh players have been sent into isolation after another person on their Christchurch-bound aircraft also tested positive.The rest of the squad went into training Lincoln on Thursday, but were are all asked to mandatorily complete a three-day room quarantine once again by the New Zealand health authorities because of their proximity to Herath on the flight.It’s the second time they will have to quarantine since arriving on December 10. The entire contingent was supposed to be in managed isolation, which included gym sessions from December 14. But that isn’t the case anymore.”We’re maintaining the existing protocol,” BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury told the Dhaka-based . “We will get a clear picture tomorrow (December 17) as they have taken a few samples today and the results are due. Since the players are isolated, hopefully no other complications will arise. This is part of the new reality.”There was reportedly concern within the Bangladesh team but they were feeling better after all but Herath tested negative again on Thursday. But the latest directive from the local health authority means that the visitors’ preparation will be delayed by another three days.Bangladesh are scheduled to play two practice matches before the first Test in Tauranga that starts on January 1.

Andrew McDonald will take temporary charge of the men’s team

Alex Malcolm and Andrew McGlashan05-Feb-2022Justin Langer has resigned as Australia men’s head coach after rejecting the offer of a six-month extension that would have taken him to the end of the men’s T20 World Cup.The initial announcement was made by Langer’s management company DSEG on Saturday, the morning after a lengthy Cricket Australia (CA) board meeting had finished without a resolution while he was flying from Melbourne to Perth.Related

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“DSEG confirms that our client Justin Langer has this morning tendered his resignation as coach of the Australian men’s cricket team,” the statement said. “The resignation follows a meeting with Cricket Australia last evening. The resignation is effective immediately.”CA CEO Nick Hockley confirmed the six-month offer, unanimously endorsed by the board on Friday, would have been the end to Langer’s tenure with the view that it was time to transition to a new coaching era in the men’s team. It had previously come close to finishing last August amid strained relationships with the players which first emerged a year ago before high-level talks patched the situation up to the extent that the World Cup and Ashes were won.”We very much felt that Justin had earned the right to defend the T20 World Cup on home soil…but we understand and respect his decision,” Hockley said. “We were pretty clear with Justin that it was for a period of transition. When we sat down and looked at the needs of the team going forward, we felt that the team had evolved, and the requirements of the head coach had.”We understand…many people will be disappointed by the decision to only offer Justin a short-term contract. The decision to start a process of transition is what we believe is in the best interest of the men’s team for unity and future success.”Langer’s manager James Henderson, who also manages Ricky Ponting, Tim Paine, and Cameron Green, made his views clear on Twitter.”As a player, Justin retired on top after a 5-0 Ashes whitewash,” Henderson wrote. “Today, despite the views of a faceless few, he finishes his time as Australian cricket coach winning the T20 World Cup and the Ashes. Lest we forget what JL took over in 2018.”Senior assistant Andrew McDonald has been named interim coach. McDonald was already set to coach the T20I series against Sri Lanka while Langer rested. He will now lead Australia’s tour of Pakistan with another assistant likely called into the fold on a short-term basis. Hockley confirmed they would be looking for one head coach, but there would likely be more tours and series devoted to the assistants.Langer’s decision came less than 24 hours after a marathon eight-hour CA board meeting where his contract was discussed at length. Langer’s current deal was due to expire in June, and he was seeking a long-term extension. Langer had held multiple contract discussions with Hockley and head of national teams Ben Oliver between the end of the fifth Ashes Test in Hobart and Friday’s board meeting.Langer has walked away from the job he coveted after those discussions. The views of senior players have played a big part in Langer’s resignation, with his relationship with certain players fractured for nearly 12 months.The players, led by former Test captain Paine, current Test captain Pat Cummins, and current limited-overs captain Aaron Finch, held crisis talks with Langer while he was in hotel quarantine in Adelaide following a disastrous T20I tour of Bangladesh in August.The meetings were mediated by Hockley and former CA chairman Earl Eddings. Langer himself held over 30 individual Zoom meetings with players and staff while in quarantine to hear complaints about his coaching style. He vowed to change his style and believes he did through the T20 World Cup and Ashes, where he was far less involved in the day-to-day coaching and far more relaxed than he had been previously.”In the middle of this year, we did have some challenging conversations and some issues, and I think, credit to absolutely everybody throughout the national teams set up for having some really robust and direct conversations,” Hockley said.”We’re now evolving to the next phase of a more shared leadership model. If we think about the journey when JL started and think about where the team is now, JL deserves the most enormous amount of credit for where he’s brought the team from and to.”Australia won the T20 World Cup in UAE last year and the Ashes handsomely, and Langer believed that would be more than enough to retain his job moving forward.But Cummins and Finch failed to endorse Langer publicly when repeatedly asked in the media if they would like him to continue as head coach long-term. Both captains were consulted by Hockley and Oliver about Langer’s position.

The travelling party will have their passports processed separately, and will not face immigration authorities

Mohammad Isam22-Jun-2021The Australian men’s team will have heightened bio-bubble measures on their tour to Bangladesh next month. The visitors are likely to touch down on July 29 to play five T20Is against Bangladesh in early August, with all matches being held in Dhaka as per the agreement between the two boards.The measures will start as soon as the Australians land at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. As Cricket Australia (CA) informed the BCB that they didn’t want the players to be in a hallroom inside the airport, the traveling party will have their passports processed separately, and they will not be facing the immigration authorities,.”The proper procedure of immigration and passport control will take place in the airport by following Covid-19 compliance measures,” Jalal Yunus, the BCB media committee chairman, said. “Maybe this would include their passport being processed separately, but it is what is usually done. They informed us that they don’t want to enter a hallroom for the immigration. The passports will be returned to them following the immigration formalities.”There will also be tighter protocols in the hotel where both teams will be staying. The BCB is using the Pan Pacific Sonargaon in midtown Dhaka, where both West Indies and Sri Lanka stayed during their tours this year.”It is the same bio-bubble that we had for West Indies and Sri Lanka,” Yunus said. “(CA) asked us to address certain pockets in the hotel where outsiders were allowed, like some of the restaurants. Those will be closed during the course of the Australia tour.”The BCB is also complying with the CA’s request to keep all five T20Is at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.The BCB has created bio-bubbles of varying sizes, since competitive cricket resumed in Bangladesh in October 2020. After seeing how Bangladesh hosted their two domestic tournaments, West Indies were impressed with their bio-bubble measures. The two tours, by West Indies and Sri Lanka, were held in Dhaka and Chattogram.Sri Lanka, who came in May, had a bit of a scare ahead of the first ODI against Bangladesh but out of the three positive cases, two turned out to be false with only one player being diagnosed with Covid-19.The BCB is currently holding the Dhaka Premier League T20s with a bio-bubble for all 12 teams and match officials staying in three separate hotels. The tournament hasn’t had too many issues, with only a few days remaining for its conclusion.Australia meanwhile will be traveling to Dhaka directly from the West Indies after their white-ball tour. This will be Australia’s first visit to Bangladesh since their 2017 tour to play two Tests.

It was probably fitting that England sealed victory against New Zealand with an enormous six over mid-wicket

The Report by George Dobell15-Feb-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsAlex Hales overcame a sticky start to lead England to victory with a string of boundaries•Getty Images

It was probably fitting that England sealed victory against New Zealand with an enormous six over midwicket: they had dominated this game throughout and the margin of victory – 10-wickets with 44 deliveries to spare – does not mislead. This was slaughter. The result secured a 2-1 series victory for England.Michael Lumb and Alex Hales rushed them to victory with the team’s highest-ever opening stand in T20, but this was a result that also owed plenty to an excellent performance in the field. England bowled with pace and discipline and fielded with consistent skill to limit New Zealand to total that always looked inadequate on another good T20 surface. It was only the second time that England have won a T20 by 10 wickets; they also beat West Indies by 10-wickets at The Oval in 2011.Lumb and Hales will take the plaudits and probably rightly so. By the latter stages of their run chase they were treating the bowling with a disdain rarely seen at this level. With victory in sight, Hales thumped Mitchell McClenaghan for 22 in four deliveries – three sixes and a four – driving anything pitched-up over long-on and pulling anything short over midwicket.It must have seemed a long time for McClenaghan since he started his spell with a maiden. Lumb and Hales’ stand was the second highest for any wicket England have achieved in this format, following the partnership of 159 between Hales and Ravi Bopara against West Indies at Trent Bridge in 2012.In truth, New Zealand had not set a competitive total with the bat. Limited to 139 by an excellent performance in the field from England, they were never able to find any fluency and were always chasing the game.It was no surprise that England elected to bowl after winning the toss, despite Stuart Broad admitting he was wrong in the previous match. All four previous T20s at this ground had seen the side batting second winning the game and, with dew expected as the game wore on, it was anticipated that gripping the ball could become difficult for bowlers later in the match.Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand captain, admitted that he would have bowled first*, too, though ultimately the match was over before the dew became relevant. New Zealand’s bowlers were unable to replicate the tight control of line and length of their counterparts and offered too much width and too many over-pitched, short or wayward deliveries.That New Zealand were able to set any sort of total was largely due to Martin Guptill. The opener, while far from fluent for most of the innings, batted into the 19th over and contributed 59 runs to give his side some sort of target to defend. But he could not hit a boundary until the eighth over of the innings and did not manage another until the 18th as New Zealand struggled to get going against a purposeful performance from England’s bowlers.Broad and Steven Finn were particularly impressive. Both bowled with pace and found enough assistance in the pitch to allow them to stick to their natural length. Broad bounced back from his mauling in Hamilton with a frugal spell. He was thrashed for 53 in his four overs in the previous game, including 22 in his final over, but here conceded just 15. Each of his three wickets came with sharp, well-directed short deliveries which may bode well for a man seeking to prove his fitness ahead of an ODI and Test series.But England’s spinners also claimed the key wickets. Joe Root, called into the side in place of Samit Patel, provided another demonstration of the calm head that has seen him step-up to international cricket with apparent ease in his encounter with Ross Taylor. Taylor had just slog-swept Root for six over midwicket but the bowler, keeping his head, tossed the next ball up a little slower and little further outside off stump and drew the batsman into the shot once more. This time Taylor was unable to connect so cleanly and top-edged the ball to deep midwicket where Jonny Bairstow, as reliable a catcher as England have, held on safely.James Tredwell accounted for Brendon McCullum who had won the game for New Zealand in Hamilton with an innings of 74 in 38 balls, but might have been a victim of the larger boundary in Wellington. Certainly the slow-sweep he played would have travelled for six in Hamilton but here it again found its way to the sure hands of Bairstow at deep midwicket.James Franklin thrashed three boundaries, including two in a row off Jade Dernbach in the last over, to keep New Zealand’s head just above water but, with Finn and Broad conceding just 33 between them in their eight overs, England could feel very satisfied with the first half of their evening’s work.If New Zealand were to have any chance of defending such a modest total they had to take their chances. But Hales was dropped on 6 by Taylor – a desperately difficult chance – jumping at slip in an attempt to cling on to a top-edge off Ian Butler, and then again on 11 as Brendon McCullum, running round from behind the stumps to square leg, insisted on trying to claim a top-edge off McClenaghan that might have been best left to a closer fielder.Lumb should have been run out on 46, too, Nathan McCullum failing to remove the bails despite standing right by the stumps, but by then it was too late anyway. England were all but home.While Hales’ late assault was eye-catching, Lumb had looked assured throughout. It was Lumb who kick-started the England chase by hitting McClenaghan for successive sixes in the fourth over – the first a drive and the second, when the bowler pulled his length back, a pull – and his fluency allowed Hales the chance to find his form. A wild over from Butler, the fifth of the innings, cost New Zealand 23 – and helped Hales pick-up three leg-side boundaries and begin to settle. Neither he or Lumb looked back.11.15am GMT, February 15. This story was amended to correct Brendon McCullum’s remark

The amended constitution of the Bangladesh Cricket Board has been declared
illegal by the Dhaka High Court

ESPNcricinfo staff28-Jan-2013The amended constitution of the Bangladesh Cricket Board has been declared
illegal by the Dhaka High Court. Delivering the verdict on Sunday, the
court said the National Sports Council, the regulatory body of sports
associations in Bangladesh, does not hold the authority to make the change.
The order implies that the amended constitution of 2008 has been upheld,
and the next elections would be held under it.Justice Sarah Mahbub and Justice Abdur Rab delivered the verdict after
hearing the writ petition jointly filed former BCB director Mobasher
Hossain and Yusuf Jamil, a local organiser. In December last year, the
court had asked the NSC why the amended constitution should not be
considered illegal, putting a stay order on the new constitution for three
months.”The NSC, on November 29, through a letter sent an amended constitution to
the BCB. That letter along with the amendments has been declared null and
void,” Mahbub Shafique, one of the lawyers appointed by the petitioners,
told reporters. “As per Article 26 of the BCB’s constitution the NSC has
no authority to amend the constitution. According to Article 11, they have
the authority to accept the proposed amendments sent to them by the BCB.”The NSC last year had approved the BCB’s new constitution by bringing in
changes to the one that had been sent to them after an Extraordinary General Meeting [EGM] on March 1 last year. The new constitution called for an election of the BCB president
by the directors. The EGM had decided to elect the president by
councillors’ votes (members of various clubs, districts, divisions, certain institutions and former players who hold voting rights in BCB elections).The other changes were made in the number of councillors from among the Dhaka Premier League clubs and by selecting three directors (as opposed to just one) from the NSC itself, to increase the size of the directors’ body, and increase the government’s influence in the board because the NSC itself is a government agency. The BCB is largely a democratically elected body that has 24 directors (23 elected and, until now, one NSC representative) and a government-appointed president.

Rangana Herath marked his birthday with a seven-wicket haul that set Sri Lanka up for victory in the Colombo Test

The Report by Siddarth Ravindran19-Mar-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Rangana Herath became only the third Sri Lankan to take 200 Test wickets•Associated Press

Since Muttiah Muralitharan’s retirement in 2010, Sri Lanka had won only four Tests. Rangana Herath’s figures in those are: 9 for 128, 12 for 171, 5 for 121 and 11 for 108. They completed their fifth victory on Tuesday at the R Premadasa Stadium, and Herath was instrumental yet again – marking his 35th birthday with figures of 12 for 157 to strangle Bangladesh and set up a 1-0 series win.There was the added joy of completing 200 Test scalps for Herath. In the last two years alone, he has taken more Test wickets than any Sri Lankan has in their career, barring Murali and Chaminda Vaas.His heroics have smoothed Sri Lanka’s transitional phase. Regulars like Thilan Samaraweera and Prasanna Jayawardene have been discarded, and the Sri Lankan captaincy spot has been a bit of a merry-go-round in the past few years. Anything less than a victory in this series would have heaped the pressure on the new leader, Angelo Mathews, who hasn’t had the best of times in the two Tests.The experienced Herath began the trek towards victory with his bagful of wickets, after which two other senior statesmen, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara, quickened the march with brisk half-centuries that left Sri Lanka on the brink of another series win over Bangladesh.Herath had undone 80 overs of good work from Bangladesh yesterday with a double-strike late in the final session. In his first three overs today, Bangladesh’s chances nearly evaporated. The sixth ball of the day spun and Mominul Haque’s attempt at working it to the leg side resulted in a catch at short leg, and soon after he removed the usually reliable Nasir Hossain, who looked to launch the ball towards long-on only for it to turn past his bat and hit the middle of middle stump.

Smart stats

• Rangana Herath became the third Sri Lankan bowler to reach the 200-wicket mark. In 47 Tests, Herath has picked up 200 wickets at an average of 29.52 with 16 five-fors.

• Herath is now joint-ninth on the list of spinners with the most five-fors and level fourth among subcontinent spinners with the most five-wicket hauls.

• Herath’s 7 for 89 is his best-ever innings bowling performance in Tests surpassing his 7 for 157 against Australia at the SSC in 2011. It is also Herath’s finest match bowling performance and the seventh-best by a Sri Lankan bowler.

• Sri Lanka’s win is their 13th in 14 matches against Bangladesh. Since 2001, the highest number of matches Sri Lanka have won against any other team is six (West Indies).

• Kumar Sangakkara’s tally of 441 runs in the series is the fifth-highest by a Sri Lankan batsman in a series in which he has played a maximum of four innings.

With the lead only 65, it left Mushfiqur Rahim as the only recognised batsmen. To the credit of the Bangladesh lower order, they didn’t collapse completely against the rampant Herath. Even between those two early Herath strikes, Mushfiqur charged out and slammed a straight six, and the big strokes regularly flowed as the Bangladesh tail searched for quick runs.Sohag Gazi typified that approach. In the first over of the second new ball, he was put down in the cordon by Dimuth Karunaratne, which only prompted a series of boundaries – three off his next four deliveries before he was caught at long-on looking to clear the rope.Sri Lanka’s catching has been below-par in this match, but Angelo Mathews snapped up his second sharp take at slip to dismiss Mushfiqur for 40, with the lead at 122. There was no quick finish as Abul Hasan, who hit the headlines with a whirlwind debut century last November, again showed off his hitting ability, striking a couple of big sixes to push the lead past 150.With the tailenders hitting out against the spinners, Sri Lanka turned to the pace of Shaminda Eranga. It took him only five deliveries to finish off the innings, following up a bouncer with a yorker that cannoned towards the base of offstump, leaving Sri Lanka a target of 160.Sri Lanka began the chase brightly, but Dimuth Karunaratne failed again, which means he has only one half-century in his previous 10 Test innings. Karunaratne shouldered arms to an incoming delivery to be lbw for 16. Any nerves for the home side though were eased by a stream of boundaries from Dilshan, while Sangakkara continued to show the form that has fetched him three centuries in three innings in this series. The pair put on a 94-run stand to erase any doubts over a Sri Lankan victory.It was another defeat for Bangladesh, but it wasn’t all gloom for them, especially considering the hammering they have usually received on visits to Sri Lanka. Though it was a flat track in Galle, Bangladesh’s notoriously fragile batting showed plenty of backbone after Sri Lanka had piled up a big total. Even in this defeat, they regularly pushed Sri Lanka, making the home side work hard for victory. There was improvement, but not enough to force a favourable result.

The recent surge in Covid-19 cases is understood to be the reason behind the reschedule

Mohammad Isam06-Apr-2021The BCB confirmed on Tuesday that Pakistan Under-19’s tour of Bangladesh has been pushed back by five days. The visitors will now arrive in the country on April 17 instead of April 12, but the number of matches remains the same.Pakistan Under-19 will spend three days in quarantine in Sylhet before training for a couple of days. The first four-day match, initially scheduled for April 19-22, will now be held from April 23-26.The first three games of the five-match Youth ODI series will be held in Sylhet on April 30, May 2 and May 4, before the touring party moves to Dhaka for the last two matches on May 7 and 9.This will be the first international tour at the Under-19 level since the Covid-19 pandemic struck last year. The previous international age-gorup even was the Under-19 World Cup in South Africa.While the BCB didn’t mention in the revised schedule the reason for the delay, it is clear it is due to the recent surge in Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh. In the last 24 hours, there were 7213 new cases and 66 deaths, both figures a new high in the country.Following the government’s announcement over the weekend that a seven-day lockdown would take effect from Monday, the BCB postponed the National Cricket League’s third round.But the five-match one-day series between the emerging Bangladesh and South Africa women’s teams is being continued in Sylhet as per the schedule, with the second match held on Tuesday. The South Africans have three more matches in Sylhet on April 8, 11 and 13.

This will be the first international action for both sides since the Covid-19 pandemic

ESPNcricinfo staff05-May-2021Scotland Women will face neighbours Ireland Women in a four-match T20I series, in what will be their first international action for both sides since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. The series will run from May 23 to May 27, with Stormont set to stage all four games. The last time Scotland and Ireland were in action was at the T20 World Cup qualifier in 2019, with both teams missing out the main event.This will be Scotland’s first assignment under new coach Mark Coles, who had replaced Steve Knox.Cricket Scotland and Cricket Ireland have been working together to get this series underway for a while. More recently, their attempt to hold the series in Spain earlier this March didn’t come to pass because of Covid-19 travel restrictions.”I want to thank Cricket Ireland High Performance Director Richard Holdsworth and all of his team for the effort that they have put into making this series possible,” Gus Mackay, the Cricket Scotland CEO, said in a media release. “Our women’s side have a crucial year ahead of them and being able to play competitive international cricket in preparation for that is absolutely essential. I’m grateful to everyone involved for making this happen and looking forward to seeing both teams out on the pitch in Belfast.”Scotland’s 14-member squad will be led by Kathryn Bryce, with her younger sister Sarah appointed vice-captain. The Bryce sisters had displayed strong form in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy in 2020. Sarah was the second-highest scorer in the tournament while Kathryn was the second-highest wicket-taker.The uncapped pair of Ikra Farooq and Alisa Lister could potentially make their international debuts. Hannah Rainey, though, is unavailable for the upcoming series.Squad: Kathryn Bryce (captain), Sarah Bryce (vice-captain), Becky Glen, Lorna Jack, Abbi Aitken-Drummond, Ikra Farooq, Abtaha Maqsood, Samantha Haggo, Katie Mcgill, Priyanaz Chatterji, Ailsa Lister, Katherine Fraser, Ellen Watson, Megan McColl.