New Zealand have named their 15-member squad for the ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2025, starting on 30 September in India and Sri Lanka. Veteran captain Sophie Devine will lead the White Ferns, with experienced stars such as Suzie Bates, Maddy Green, Lea Tahuhu and Amelia Kerr expected to play key roles. Youngsters including Eden Carson and Georgia Plimmer will also be ones to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Head coach Ben Sawyer praised the balance of the squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA huge congratulations to all 15 players named to represent New Zealand at this World Cup,\u201d Sawyer said. \u201cI\u2019d like to especially acknowledge the four players set for their first World Cup \u2013 they\u2019ve all earned this opportunity and I\u2019m excited to see what impact they can have on the tournament. I\u2019m really pleased with the balance of the squad. I think we\u2019ve got the right mix to tackle what we\u2019ll come up against in terms of conditions and opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, some big names have missed out. Fran Jonas, Lauren Down, Molly Penfold and Hannah Rowe were not included in the final 15. Sawyer admitted those calls were not easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s never easy when you have multiple players pushing for the same spot and that of course made for some tough selection calls. Having to leave out the likes of Fran in favour of Flora was a tough decision,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The White Ferns will begin their campaign against defending champions Australia on 1 October in Indore. Before that, they will play two warm-up games in Bengaluru \u2013 against India Women A on 25 September and against India Women on 27 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New Zealand Squad:<\/strong> Sophie Devine (c), Suzie Bates, Eden Carson, Flora Devonshire, Izzy Gaze, Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Bree Illing, Polly Inglis, Bella James, Amelia Kerr, Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Georgia Plimmer, Lea Tahuhu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Zealand have named their 15-member squad for the ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2025, starting on 30 September in India and Sri Lanka. Veteran captain Sophie Devine will lead the White Ferns, with experienced stars such as Suzie Bates, Maddy Green, Lea Tahuhu and Amelia Kerr expected to play key roles. Youngsters including Eden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}