Trinbago Knight Riders Rope In Jemimah Rodrigues, Shikha Pandey For Womens Caribbean Premier League 2024
Jemimah Rodrigues and Shikha Pandey develop into the third Indian cricketer to be signed in WCPL historical past after Shreyanka Patil.
New Delhi: India cricketers Jemimah Rodrigues and Shikha Pandey have been signed by Trinbago Knight Riders for the upcoming season of Ladies’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL), the franchise introduced on Sunday. Winners of the inaugural version, TKR have additionally signed Australian pair of Meg Lanning and Jess Jonassen apart from retaining 5 Caribbean gamers.
The retained gamers are captain Deandra Dottin, wicketkeeper Kycia Knight, speedster Shamila Connell, Zaida James and Samara Ramnath. That is additionally the primary time each Rodrigues and Pandey might be part of the WCPL. Earlier, Shreyanka Patil was the one Indian cricketer to have performed in WCPL. The remaining six slots within the 15-member squad might be crammed within the WCPL Draft in July.
“That is the primary time I’ll be coming to the WCPL. I’ve performed for India within the Caribbean fairly a bit, however I’m actually excited that I’ll be representing the Knight Riders in WCPL. Everyone knows the legacy that they’ve throughout the globe. Even the TKR Ladies’s workforce, champions of 2022, are a really proud aspect,” Rodrigues stated in a press release.
“I consider this match can be going to function an excellent preparation for us main as much as the Ladies’s World T20 in October, with a few of the greatest gamers on the earth collaborating within the competitors,” added the right-hander, who’s coming after back-to-back half-centuries in opposition to South Africa within the just lately concluded Check match and first T20I in Chennai.