Windies Women to host T20 series against India

CWI Director of Cricket; Jimmy Adams.
CWI Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams.
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West Indies Women will host India Women for three Colonial Medical Insurance One-Day Internationals and five Twenty20s Internationals from Nov. 1-20, with matches to be played in Antigua, St. Lucia and Guyana.

This was announced by Cricket West Indies (CWI) who said India Women will arrive in the Caribbean on Oct. 28 ahead of the first ODI on Nov. 1 to be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Ground on Antigua’s 38th Independence Day.

All three matches of the ODI series will be played in Antigua on Nov. 1, 3 and 6 and points accrued in this series all count towards the ICC Women’s Championship 2017-2021.

The fifth-match T20 series will be played across two countries with the first two matches taking place at the Daren Sammy Cricket Stadium in St. Lucia on Nov. 9 and l0 and the next three games being contested at the Providence Stadium in Guyana on Nov. 14, 17, and 20.

CWI Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams said the long tour against the Indians will give the hosts “a better opportunity to fine tune their skills ahead of the T20 World Cup in Australia next year.”