Alice Davidson-Richards and Maia Bouchier added to England’s T20 squad for West Indies series

Maia Bouchier and Alice Davidson-Richards have been added to England’s T20 squad within the West Indies following Alice Capsey’s withdrawal from the tour.

Capsey broke her left collarbone through the first ODI within the Caribbean, ruling her out for the rest of the journey.

England have coped comfortably within the teenage all-rounder’s absence, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in Antigua earlier than Friday’s collection finale, however have strengthened their hand for the 5 T20s which comply with.

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Alice Capsey was an enormous loss to England however the facet have performed effectively within the ODI Collection, main 2-0 forward of the ultimate recreation on Friday

Bouchier, who has 14 caps, will fly out to affix the squad after being initially neglected by selectors whereas Davidson-Richards stays on having initially been picked just for the 50-over leg.

England’s preliminary outings underneath new head coach Jon Lewis have been extremely encouraging, with seamer Lauren Bell starring within the second ODI with career-best figures of 4-33.

Reflecting on a second successive 142-run win, she stated: “It was an incredible crew efficiency. We’re actually happy with the best way we performed.

Alice Davidson-Richards celebrates her maiden ODI fifty with England team-mate Charlie Dean
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Alice Davidson-Richards is known as as much as the squad with Alice Capsey dominated out with a damaged collarbone

“Lewy [Lewis] has talked so much about taking part in with out worry and there being no restrict on what we will obtain, I really feel like we noticed that at the moment.

“Personally, I simply caught to my plan and to get a profession finest in a recreation that sealed the ODI collection is de facto cool.

“We’re not notably taking a look at altering our recreation plan as we proceed the remainder of the tour, our minds are on every recreation as they arrive and taking part in with the identical aggression and positivity we did at the moment, it is very releasing.”

England’s white-ball tour of the Caribbean continues with the third ODI happening on Friday forward of 5 T20 internationals.

England girls in West Indies

Friday, December 9: Third ODI, Antigua (6pm UK time)

Sunday, December 11: First IT20, Antigua (10pm UK time)

Wednesday, December 14: Second IT20, Barbados (10pm UK time)

Saturday, December 17: Third IT20, Barbados (10pm UK time)

Sunday, December 18: Fourth IT20, Barbados (10pm UK time)

Thursday, December 22: Fifth IT20, Barbados (10pm UK time)

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