USA pick 42-year-old captain & two 50-year-olds for WC qualifier

Oct 23, 2011 Sports

As Goordial-John among Guyanese players ignored

The USA Cricket Association has announced a 14-player squad for next month’s Women’s World Cup Qualifier that features 42-year-old captain, Doris Francis, and two players in their 50s: Joan Alexander-Serrano (50) and Grace Chadderton-Richards (54) are both older than the team’s new coach, Robin Singh.
The selection process for the tournament, to be held in Bangladesh, was affected by a dispute over tour stipends. Six players from the preliminary 18-player squad, who signed a letter to USACA asking for an increased stipend, were left out of the final roster.
Also missing is former Guyana and West Indies women’s player Indomatie Goordial-John, the leading scorer and most economical bowler at last year’s ICC Americas Women’s Challenge Series in Toronto.
Among the players included at the expense of those who protested the tour stipend is another 42-year-old, Durga Das.
The final squad named sees nine omissions from the original 18-player squad USACA picked in July. According to a source, Sanuja Dabade was injured at the squad’s 10-day camp in Barbados in August while the other eight players, all in their 20s, were part of the champion Tri-State Lynx squad, which won the 2011 USACA Women’s Tournament this summer.
They are Guyanese Goordial-John, Candacy Atkins, Shondell Ward, Triholder Marshall, and Shinead Emerson while the others are Monique Mathee, Karen Bayles, and Melissa Sandy.
The Lynx team is coach is former Guyanese pacer Linden Fraser, who was also the USA Women’s coach up until October 10 when he was replaced by Singh, the former India all-rounder who was born in Trinidad.
Mathee, who was USA’s first-choice wicketkeeper, scored 70 not out in a nine-wicket win over Canada during the ICC Americas Women’s Challenge series in 2010 that clinched USA’s spot at next month’s qualifier. Mathee’s score was the second highest individual score at the event behind Goordial-John’s 83.
Ward was USA’s leading wicket-taker at that same event, finishing with eight scalps in three games including a best of 5 for 20.
The USA Women’s squad is scheduled to leave New York for Bangladesh on November 5. USA’s first match is against South Africa on November 15.
USA is also scheduled to play the Netherlands, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka in Group A.

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