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At the forthcoming Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 in the United Arab Emirates, wicketkeeper Sarah Bryce, her sister, will be the vice-captain and all-rounder Kathryn Bryce the captain.
The Women’s T20 World Cup will be Scotland’s first tournament, and their roster is full with all-rounders. Aside from Kathryn, the other all-arounders are Megan McColl, Katherine Fraser, and Priyanaz Chatterji.
“The make-up and balance of this squad is outstanding,” head coach Craig Wallace said. “We’ve got match-winners from start to finish within it, which I think is the big difference in the evolution of this squad during my short tenure. People have been putting in crucial performances each time they step onto the field, and that runs right the way through the squad.”
Scotland qualified for the competition by coming in second to Sri Lanka in the earlier this year qualification tournament, which was also hosted in the United Arab Emirates. They played a tri-series against the hosts and Papua New Guinea in the Netherlands in the lead-up to the T20 World Cup, and they performed admirably there.
Thirteen of Scotland’s fifteen qualification team members are included in the T20 World Cup roster. Also named are former captain Abbi Aitken-Drummond and offspinner Olivia Bell, both of whom made an impression in the Netherlands.
“If you look at the recent Netherlands series, we won five games out of six, and there is a depth in the wider group now, proved by some of those who’ve not been selected but who’ve been pushing and performing all year,” Wallace said. “It was great to be able to argue about players’ cases in a positive sense based on the work they’ve all produced.”
Group B comprises England, Bangladesh, South Africa, and the West Indies, including Scotland. They will play two warm-up matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka before travelling to the United Arab Emirates in mid-September for a training camp. On October 3, they play their first match of the T20 World Cup against Bangladesh.