TT teenager in Windies women’s cricket squad

Jade Chadee, an 18-year-old Trini-dad and Tobago leg-spinner, is among three newcomers named in a West Indies training squad for next year’s Women’s World Cup in South Africa. Chadee, Cordell Jack of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), and Barbadian Pamela Lavine, are the newcomers in the squad with Trinidadian Stephanie Power retained as captain. Team coach Ann Browne-John says the Regional Under-23 tournament in SVG in July will also be used to identify players for possible selection to the squad. Chadee, also a left-handed middle-order batter, is one of seven players from regional knockout champions Trinidad and Tobago in the squad.

The others are Power, Envis Williams, Nelly Williams, Felicia Cummings, Anisa Mohammed, and Shane de Silva, who returns to the unit after being unavailable for the tour of India and Pakistan earlier this year. Jack, who won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for the West Indies competition that ended on Sunday, is joined by Juliana Nero and Geneille Greaves as players in the squad from new regional women’s league champions St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Jack took most wickets (13) and finished third in the batting averages.  Lavine is a solid opener and bowler. St Lucia got four picks — Verena Felicien, Nadine George, Doris Francis and Phillipa Thomas, and the squad is completed by Jamaican Jackie Robin-son, Grenada’s Debbie-Ann Lewis, and Indomate Goordial, of Guyana. (CMC)