Davina Perrin has been neglected of the England squad introduced for the Girls’s T20 World Cup squad, however uncapped teenager Tilly Corteen-Coleman is included..
Nat Sciver-Brunt will captain the squad on house soil at her seventh T20 World Cup.
She is joined within the squad by uncapped 18-year-old Surrey spinner Corteen-Coleman, Warwickshire’s Issy Wong and Durham’s Lauren Filer, who’re all chosen in a T20 World Cup squad for the primary time.
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Surrey’s Danni Wyatt-Hodge will play in her eighth T20 World Cup.
Somerset’s Charlie Dean is the vice-captain and joins an inventory of spectacular all-round cricketers within the squad, with Hampshire quick bowler Lauren Bell set to steer the assault.
England Squad
- Lauren Bell, Bowler
- Alice Capsey, All-Rounder
- Nat Sciver-Brunt, Captain and All-Rounder
- Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Batter
- Lauren Filer, Bowler
- Amy Jones, Wicketkeeper
- Heather Knight, Batter
- Freya Kemp, All-Rounder
- Sophia Dunkley, Batter
- Sophie Ecclestone, Bowler
- Charlie Dean, All-Rounder
- Linsey Smith, Bowler
- Dani Gibson, All-Rounder
- Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Bowler
- Issy Wong, Bowler
Head coach Charlotte Edwards stated: “There isn’t any doubt that it has been extremely robust to get to those 15 names. That is the toughest set of choice conferences I’ve been part of as a result of the pool of gamers to select from is so sturdy and so many gifted gamers have put their hand as much as be part of the squad, which is precisely what we would like. That’s the nature of world-class sport, and it’s a privilege we do not take frivolously to have the ability to make these tough choices.
“An ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 on home soil is a special moment for the game in this country, and we are all really motivated by what could be ahead for this group of players and what they can achieve this summer.”
Sciver-Brunt added: “It is a huge honour to be leading England into a T20 World Cup at home in front of family and friends and all our passionate supporters.
“We have now all been wanting ahead to this summer time and this event for a while now and the naming of the squad means it’s virtually right here and we will not wait to get out onto the sphere and provides it the whole lot to win this World Cup once more.
“I know how much winning in 2009 meant to the players and to Charlotte Edwards as captain, and being in the team under Heather Knight’s leadership for the 2017 ODI World Cup win was incredibly special.
“Now the goal is to do one thing comparable with this incredible group of gamers who I do know are placing their coronary heart and soul into reaching our objective, and that arduous work will proceed proper all through the summer time as we begin with video games towards New Zealand and India earlier than that event begins.”
‘Sciver-Brunt and Bell England’s gamers to be careful for’
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Sky Sports activities’ Michael Atherton says house aspect England are undoubtedly within the shake up for fulfillment
Sky Sports activities Cricket’s Atherton on England’s gamers to be careful for on the Girls’s T20 World Cup…
“I’ve got to go with the captain, Nat Sciver-Brunt. It’s very important at a home tournament, with a lot of scrutiny, a lot of pressure, a lot of expectation.
“The captain and the chief as a driving power and clearly among the best gamers as effectively, which Nat Sciver-Brunt is.
“Opening bowler Lauren Bell, in English conditions, opening bowling, it’s very important to find that movement with the new ball.”
Knight: Panorama of ladies’s sport modified – England need World Cup legacy
Heather Knight needs England ladies to emulate the Lionesses and Crimson Roses this summer time
Heather Knight has advised Sky Sports activities England’s ambition at their house Girls’s T20 World Cup beginning in June is to “create a real legacy for women’s cricket in this country,” emulating the Lionesses and Crimson Roses.
The 35-year-old says the panorama of ladies’s sport has modified significantly since 2017 and her aspect’s World Cup triumph, with England’s Lionesses profitable back-to-back Euros titles in 2022 and 2025 – the primary in entrance of a sold-out Wembley – and the Crimson Roses securing the Rugby World Cup title at a Twickenham full home final September.
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Recap the second England exited the T20 Girls’s World Cup in 2024 as West Indies had been jubilant, whereas Heather Knight was left in tears
“The focus now is women’s cricket at the World Cup so it’s really exciting, not too far away now and a chance for us to do something really special as a side,” Knight advised Sky Sports activities.
“Home support was huge for us in 2017, the way the crowds built and the final at Lord’s, it’s super special.
“It is an opportunity to have an actual influence on the game in your nation and go away a legacy. If we do our job proper and have success this summer time we will go away an actual legacy on the game of ladies’s cricket on this nation.
“It took a little bit of time for that success to see changes and I think the landscape is very different now and – particularly in women’s cricket – there’s the structure beneath the game, the domestic game’s professional. It’s a lot more normal to be a women’s cricketer, there’s a lot more visibility.
“You’d hope now if we’ve got that success and issues go effectively for us the constructions are in place to take advantage of it and actually make it an enormous second. We have seen what the Lionesses and Crimson Roses have achieved, I’ve adopted these very carefully and know among the gamers.
“We want to do something similar and hopefully inspire kids to make a girl in cricket really normal and really great.”
ODI and IT20 sequence towards New Zealand
Along with the T20 World Cup squad, the selectors have additionally named their squads for the Metro Financial institution One Day sequence towards New Zealand and the 2 Vitality IT20 sequence towards New Zealand and India that comply with.
At first of a brand new ODI World Cup cycle, 5 gamers are added to the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup squad for the three-match Metro Financial institution ODI sequence, with first worldwide call-ups for Kira Chathli and Jodi Grewcock.
Sophia Dunkley, Charlie Dean and Danni Wyatt-Hodge will miss the ODI sequence to handle their workloads, and within the case of Wyatt-Hodge the upcoming arrival of her first child.
Sarah Glenn was not thought-about for choice because of her continued restoration from a damaged finger harm.
England Girls’s Metro Financial institution ODI Squad v NZ
- Nat Sciver-Brunt, The Blaze (Capt)
- Em Arlott, Warwickshire
- Lauren Bell, Hampshire
- Alice Capsey, Surrey
- Kira Chathli, Surrey
- Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Surrey
- Charlie Dean, Somerset
- Sophia Dunkley, Surrey
- Sophie Ecclestone, Lancashire
- Lauren Filer, Durham
- Mahika Gaur, Lancashire
- Dani Gibson, Somerset
- Jodi Grewcock, Essex
- Amy Jones, The Blaze
- Freya Kemp, Hampshire
- Heather Knight, Somerset
- Emma Lamb, Lancashire
- Linsey Smith, Hampshire
- Issy Wong, Warwickshire
- Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Surrey
The squad for the Vitality IT20s v NZ and India is similar because the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup squad.
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