Star bowler Sophie Ecclestone has been unnoticed of latest coach Charlotte Edwards’ first squad to face West Indies as England look to handle her return from a knee damage.
Ecclestone is at present taking part in in her first match of the English season, scoring a 49-ball 50 within the first innings of Lancashire’s One-Day Cup fixture towards Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
The 26-year-old is one among a number of senior gamers omitted by Edwards, who will coach her nation for the primary time after being appointed within the aftermath of England’s disastrous Ashes marketing campaign.
High-order batter Maia Bouchier doesn’t characteristic in both the one-day worldwide or T20 squad, whereas Alice Capsey and veteran Danni Wyatt-Hodge will sit out the 50-over fixtures.
There are recollects for batter Emma Lamb, all-rounder Alice Davidson-Richards and seamer Issy Wong, whereas uncapped medium pacer Emily Arlott can also be included.
England face the West Indies in three ODIs and three T20s, beginning in Canterbury on 21 June.
Ecclestone picked up the knee damage on the Girls’s Premier League in India in March.
“Following her knee damage, Sophie Ecclestone is bodily not fairly at 100% but,” mentioned Edwards, who has picked the squad alongside new nationwide selector Lydia Greenway.
“She’s been rehabbing and dealing onerous however she’s solely simply received again on the park for Lancashire so she does not have sufficient cricket underneath her belt to be prepared for this sequence.
“Maia’s expertise is there for all to see and the problem to her is to go and make constant match-winning contributions for Hampshire in home cricket. It is the identical for any participant who’d dissatisfied to not be part of these squads.”
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