 West Indies girls’s cricketers Anisa Mohammed, Shakera Selman, Kycia Knight and Kyshona Knight have confirmed their retirement from worldwide cricket.Mohammed and Selman each served as vice-captains throughout their 20- and 18-year careers respectively, all gamers lately communicated their selections to Cricket West Indies (CWI).Mohammed made her debut for the West Indies Ladies in 2003 on the age of 15 towards Japan Ladies in an ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier within the Netherlands. Her final match was towards Australia Ladies within the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup in March 2022.She performed 141 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 117 T20 Internationals (T20Is). She took 180 ODI wickets, with a profession better of 7-14 towards Pakistan. She took 125 T20I wickets and in 2016 she turned the primary cricketer (male or feminine) to take 100 T20I wickets. She additionally has the excellence of being the primary West Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in a Ladies’s T20I. She was a member of the West Indies Ladies’s workforce which received the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India in 2016.In her announcement, Mohammed mentioned: “The final 20 years have been actually wonderful. I've loved each single minute of it. The highs and the lows. I imagine the time has come for me to step away from the sport and permit the younger gamers to reside their goals as I've lived mine. I used to be privileged sufficient to step onto the sphere sporting my maroon 258 occasions in my profession. I've represented West Indies in 5 (5) ODI World Cups and 7 (7) T20 World Cups. To my fellow teammates, thanks for all of the love and respect proven to me throughout my time with you. You’ll have made my journey a memorable expertise. I might additionally wish to thank WI, coaches, managers, and medical workers for believing in me and all the time making certain I used to be in the very best place to characterize the West Indies. To my followers, it has been an honor representing you over the past 20 years. The love, assist, encouragement, and respect from you’ll gave me the motivation to maintain doing what love most.”Selman began her worldwide profession towards Eire Ladies in Dublin in 2008 and shortly established herself as a key member of the West Indies Ladies’s workforce. She performed 100 ODIs taking 82 wickets and 96 T20Is taking 51wickets. Selman was additionally a member of the 2016 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup profitable squad.In a heartfelt assertion, Shakera Selman mentioned: “This marks my last bow after 18 unimaginable years. I'm happy with taking part in with and towards legends, and fortunate to have dismissed just a few. My intention was all the time to encourage and help others of their goals. I owe immense gratitude to God, my supportive household and pals, and to CWI, my teammates, and the medical and administration groups for his or her unwavering steerage. To the followers, your assist has been my motivation. As I transition to the following section of my profession, I sit up for persevering with to share my ardour for the sport in new methods.”The Knight twins Kycia and Kyshona made their debuts for West Indies Ladies in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Kycia a left-handed wicketkeeper/batter holds the report for probably the most dismissals in Ladies’s T20I innings with 5, in addition to probably the most stumpings in an innings of 4 and tied for many catches in an innings additionally with 4. She performed 87 Odis, amassing 1327 runs and performed 70 T20Is, scoring 801 runs. Kyshona performed 51 ODIs, scoring 851 runs and performed 55 T20Is, scoring 546 runs.Of their announcement, the Knights mentioned: “As this marks the tip of an satisfying and wonderful journey, we wish to take this time to thank our household, pals, teammates & supporters for the continued love and assist all through the years. None of this might’ve been doable with out the assist and love from you guys and for that we're perpetually grateful. Lastly, thanks to CWI for the alternatives granted and reminiscences that shall be perpetually cherished”.CWI’s Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe paid tribute to the 4 cricketers: “Anisa, Shakera, Kycia and Kyshona have had all made vital particular person impacts on girls’s cricket the West Indies and the world. Their dedication, ability, and sportsmanship haven't solely elevated our workforce but additionally captivated cricket followers worldwide. Their legacies, as members of the title-winning ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup squad of 2016 and particular person milestones, will proceed to affect and information future generations to aspire to put on the Maroon.”Mohammed, Selman, Kycia and Kyshona Knight had been all a part of the West Indies Ladies victorious ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup profitable squad of 2016 in India.–IANScs/){kind=link}
St John’s, Antigua, Jan 18 (IANS) West Indies girls’s cricketers Anisa Mohammed, Shakera Selman, Kycia Knight and Kyshona Knight have confirmed their retirement from worldwide cricket.
Mohammed and Selman each served as vice-captains throughout their 20- and 18-year careers respectively, all gamers lately communicated their selections to Cricket West Indies (CWI).
Mohammed made her debut for the West Indies Ladies in 2003 on the age of 15 towards Japan Ladies in an ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier within the Netherlands. Her final match was towards Australia Ladies within the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup in March 2022.
She performed 141 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 117 T20 Internationals (T20Is). She took 180 ODI wickets, with a profession better of 7-14 towards Pakistan. She took 125 T20I wickets and in 2016 she turned the primary cricketer (male or feminine) to take 100 T20I wickets. She additionally has the excellence of being the primary West Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in a Ladies’s T20I. She was a member of the West Indies Ladies’s workforce which received the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India in 2016.
In her announcement, Mohammed mentioned: “The final 20 years have been actually wonderful. I’ve loved each single minute of it. The highs and the lows. I imagine the time has come for me to step away from the sport and permit the younger gamers to reside their goals as I’ve lived mine. I used to be privileged sufficient to step onto the sphere sporting my maroon 258 occasions in my profession. I’ve represented West Indies in 5 (5) ODI World Cups and 7 (7) T20 World Cups. To my fellow teammates, thanks for all of the love and respect proven to me throughout my time with you. You’ll have made my journey a memorable expertise. I might additionally wish to thank WI, coaches, managers, and medical workers for believing in me and all the time making certain I used to be in the very best place to characterize the West Indies. To my followers, it has been an honor representing you over the past 20 years. The love, assist, encouragement, and respect from you’ll gave me the motivation to maintain doing what love most.”
Selman began her worldwide profession towards Eire Ladies in Dublin in 2008 and shortly established herself as a key member of the West Indies Ladies’s workforce. She performed 100 ODIs taking 82 wickets and 96 T20Is taking 51wickets. Selman was additionally a member of the 2016 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup profitable squad.
In a heartfelt assertion, Shakera Selman mentioned: “This marks my last bow after 18 unimaginable years. I’m happy with taking part in with and towards legends, and fortunate to have dismissed just a few. My intention was all the time to encourage and help others of their goals. I owe immense gratitude to God, my supportive household and pals, and to CWI, my teammates, and the medical and administration groups for his or her unwavering steerage. To the followers, your assist has been my motivation. As I transition to the following section of my profession, I sit up for persevering with to share my ardour for the sport in new methods.”
The Knight twins Kycia and Kyshona made their debuts for West Indies Ladies in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Kycia a left-handed wicketkeeper/batter holds the report for probably the most dismissals in Ladies’s T20I innings with 5, in addition to probably the most stumpings in an innings of 4 and tied for many catches in an innings additionally with 4. She performed 87 Odis, amassing 1327 runs and performed 70 T20Is, scoring 801 runs. Kyshona performed 51 ODIs, scoring 851 runs and performed 55 T20Is, scoring 546 runs.
Of their announcement, the Knights mentioned: “As this marks the tip of an satisfying and wonderful journey, we wish to take this time to thank our household, pals, teammates & supporters for the continued love and assist all through the years. None of this might’ve been doable with out the assist and love from you guys and for that we’re perpetually grateful. Lastly, thanks to CWI for the alternatives granted and reminiscences that shall be perpetually cherished”.
CWI’s Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe paid tribute to the 4 cricketers: “Anisa, Shakera, Kycia and Kyshona have had all made vital particular person impacts on girls’s cricket the West Indies and the world. Their dedication, ability, and sportsmanship haven’t solely elevated our workforce but additionally captivated cricket followers worldwide. Their legacies, as members of the title-winning ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup squad of 2016 and particular person milestones, will proceed to affect and information future generations to aspire to put on the Maroon.”
Mohammed, Selman, Kycia and Kyshona Knight had been all a part of the West Indies Ladies victorious ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup profitable squad of 2016 in India.
–IANS
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