A 17-player national squad for the 2016-17 season has been announced by the HK Cricket Association.
The squad was selected after an extended trial and Director of Cricket and Head Coach of the women’s squad Charlie Burke is delighted about the selection: “The commitment and effort of the open squad players has made it really tough for the selectors to pick the National Squad. It is great to see a number of the players performing so well in club cricket such Shanzeen Shahzad has scored nearly 600 runs and taken 26 wickets in both forms of the game, Kary Chan has scored just under 500 runs and taken a few wickets.”
“Three of our players have played senior Men’s cricket during the season including Emma Lai, Pull To and Mariko Hill. We are as hungry for success and strong as we have ever been in the time I have been involved in Hong Kong Cricket and with the next 5 months of hard training before the Indian tour. We will be a hard side to beat”
“Our goal is to qualify for the Women’s World Cup and we will work as hard as ever to achieve this goal,” Burke said.
The women’s squad have an exciting 2016 to look froward to with a pre-tour to India in September and the ICC-Asia Women’s T20 Championships in October. The competition there will include China, Nepal and Thailand with the winners going to the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifiers.
2016-17 Hong Kong Women’s National Squad:
Ka Man (Betty) Chan
Ka Ying (Kary) Chan
Lemon Cheung
Yasmin Daswani
Jenefer Davies
Ishitaa Gidwani
Keenu Gill
Mariko Hill
Sin Yee (Cindy) Ho
Lau Ping (Amanda) Kwok
Marina Lamplough
Wing Kai (Emma) Lai
Sidra Nasreen
Chan Sau Ha
Shanzeen Shahzad
Yee Shan (Pull) To
Ruchitha Venkatesh