All-rounder Hayley Matthews has been named the West Indies Ladies’s staff captain. She’s going to exchange Stafanie Taylor on the helm and can lead the aspect within the subsequent collection they’ll play. The change in management was really useful by the Ladies’s choice panel and Cricket West Indies (CWI) backed the choice, thereby making the announcement. This has ended Taylor’s 10-year affiliation with management when she first led the Caribbean aspect again in 2012 in T20Is.
Taylor led West Indies in 55 T20Is and 62 ODIs throughout her tenure as captain profitable 29 and 25 matches respectively within the two codecs. The staff additionally gained the T20 World Cup in 2016 underneath her captaincy. Hayley Matthews served as a deputy to her over the previous couple of years and the lead selector Ann Browne-John felt that that is the perfect time for her to take over the reins from Taylor.
“The choice panel has finished a assessment of the staff together with the management. After this assessment, the panel took the choice to advocate that Hayley Matthews takes over the position as captain. Hayley has made notable progress through the years, serving as Vice-Captain of the West Indies Ladies’s Workforce and is the present Captain of her Nationwide Workforce, Barbados.
“She has matured as a participant and is without doubt one of the main gamers worldwide with a superb grasp of the sport. Given the expertise that she would have gained in each roles, we’re assured that is the perfect time for her to step into the position of captain. We acknowledge that main the staff for seven years is a substantial achievement to which Stafanie has given big ranges of dedication and power.
“We consider Stafanie is a world-class performer who will little question proceed so as to add super worth to the staff as one of many high all-rounders within the sport,” Ann Browne-John mentioned in response to Cricbuzz.
Hayley Matthews humbled to get the chance
Hayley Matthews has up to now represented West Indies in 69 ODIs and 61 T20Is and is honoured to get an opportunity to steer the West Indies. She additionally lauded Stafanie Taylor for her management expertise and is trying ahead to her steering in main the staff within the close to future. “I’m each humbled and honoured to be given the chance to Captain the West Indies Ladies’s Workforce. It’s undoubtedly an exhilarating feeling and I welcome the expertise to steer and study with open arms.
“This staff has been very near my coronary heart from the start of my skilled profession eight years in the past and the affect of Stafanie’s management all through these eight years has performed a serious position within the participant I’m right this moment. I eagerly anticipate working with the gamers to proceed constructing on the progress wherein the staff has made to this point.
“I wish to thank Stafanie for her astounding management of the staff through the years. We’ve achieved a few of our largest milestones together with her on the forefront and I sit up for persevering with taking part in alongside her,” Matthews mentioned.
