Birmingham: Barbados skipper Hayley Matthews and her staff are nit overawed by the presence of title favourites Australia and a formidable India in its group with an goal of springing just a few surprises in girls’s cricket competitors on the Commonwealth Video games. Barbados are clubbed in group A with Pakistan, India, and Australia and to have any likelihood of progressing into the semi-finals, they might want to beat both event favourites Australia or India, the runners-up within the final T20 World Cup in 2020.
“It’s going to be a difficult event for us, however we’re welcoming it with open arms,” the 24-year-old Matthews, a West Indies common and likewise somebody who performs in India’s T20 Girls’s Problem, stated. “As soon as we go on the market and execute what we all know we are able to do, we now have an opportunity of beating the larger sides.” Matthews has been enjoying worldwide cricket since she was 16, however representing Barbados on the worldwide stage will likely be a brand new expertise.
Normally a mixed West Indies staff compete in Worldwide cricket, however Caribbean islands are represented individually on the Video games, so Barbados had been chosen to compete after ending as champions on the 2019 Caribbean home T20 event. “It’s undoubtedly a bit completely different, however we’re a tight-knit group… We’ve been enjoying collectively for a few years as a Barbados staff regionally, and all the women have gelled effectively.” Hayley, who was just lately elevated to the position of West Indies captain, can have the possibility to steer for the primary time in an official worldwide match.
Requested about the important thing to success in opposition to the cricketing giants, she stated: “Each time we step onto the sector, I encourage as a lot enjoyment as doable.” “That’s when lots of us play at our greatest — when everybody is aware of they’ve the liberty to exit and specific themselves.” The ICC has accorded worldwide standing to all matches, making certain that not less than 4 Barbados gamers will achieve maiden caps of their opening sport in opposition to Pakistan on Friday. “Plenty of them are going to be enthusiastic about going through gamers they’ve seemed as much as, gamers who’re position fashions for them,” she stated.
Girls’s cricket has been included within the Video games for the primary time and can make its debut in T20I format after males’s cricket appeared at Kuala Lumpur version in 1998 wherein the good Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh had participated. Matthews and her team-mates are benefiting from the experience of assistant coach Ryan Hinds, who had made his Barbados debut as a 17-year-old in Kuala Lumpur.
“It’s fairly distinctive that he was in a position to be a part of it in 1998 and to return again now as a coach,” she stated. “We’ve chatted about what he went by means of when he was enjoying on the 1998 Video games,’ the skipper stated.
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