Lucy O’Reilly, 13, could become Ireland’s youngest woman cricketer after being named in the 14-member squad for the Women’s World T20 qualifiers in Dublin

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Jul-2013Lucy O’Reilly, 13, could become Ireland’s youngest woman cricketer after being named in the 14-member squad for the Women’s World T20 qualifiers due to begin on July 23 in Dublin. She would also be the second-youngest overall, after Pakistan’s Sajjida Shah, who had her first national call-up when she was 12.O’Reilly, an allrounder, is the daughter of former Irish cricketer Peter O’Reilly and has played four limited-overs matches for Ireland A in division two of the county championships, taking 2 for 15 in their seven-wicket win over Worcestershire on June 23. She is the second 13-year old to be selected under national coach Jeremy Bray after Elena Tice, Ireland’s current youngest cricketer, made her debut against Netherlands in August 2011.Despite having five teenagers in the squad, Bray highlighted Ireland’s wealth of experience going into the tournament. “While the headlines will be about the teenagers in the squad such as Lucy, Elena, Una Raymond-Hoey and Kim Garth, it shouldn’t be forgotten that we’ve got a spine of experience in there too. Isobel and Cecelia Joyce have been stalwarts for over a decade now, while Clare Shillington and Eimear Richardson are also battle hardened.”Three teams from the qualifiers will compete in the Women’s World T20 in Bangladesh in 2014 and Bray was optimistic about Ireland’s chances. “It’s a real bonus for the team to be on home soil,” he said. “Our conditions will give us a massive advantage over the other sides who may find it very difficult to acclimatise. The fact that the ICC has just announced that there are three qualification places up for grabs instead of one is a real boost.”Ireland squad: Isobel Joyce (capt), Laura Delany, Kim Garth, Cecelia Joyce, Shauna Kavanagh, Amy Kenealy, Louise McCarthy, Lucy O’Reilly, Una Raymond-Hoey, Eimear Richardson, Melissa Scott-Hayward, Clare Shillington, Elena Tice, Mary Waldron

Desmond Haynes, the former West Indies opener, has thrown his full support behind the influx of the Twenty20 format in the game

Renaldo Matadeen14-Aug-2013Desmond Haynes, the former West Indies opener, has thrown his full support behind the Twenty20 bandwagon permeating throughout cricket today. Haynes, who once held the world record for the most ODI runs (8648), is currently coaching the Barbados Tridents in the first edition of the Caribbean Premier League. He highlighted the tournament as a case study of success.”People focus too much on the cons and negatives but how many people look at the positives (of T20s)? This needs to come out more,” Haynes said. “If I had T20 cricket to play in my day, I’d have jumped at it. Do you know how hard it was to earn a living back in my day? You had to travel all over the world to earn a living outside the international game. A lot of cricketers didn’t get the chance to see their families often and to see their kids grow up. T20 offers the financial means to ply your trade and make a living, especially for younger players.”Haynes spoke about worldwide T20 tournaments that are refurbishing grounds, adding infrastructure such as pitches, cricket academies and training clinics. He also mentioned the protracted benefits of this renaissance within contemporary limited overs.”While young players train for ODIs and Tests, they get the chance to play in T20 tournaments and land sponsors, money for tools and gears…and the stability for their futures, on and off the field,” Haynes said. “T20 helps settle a player’s career in ways we, the old guard, never experienced.”Haynes cautioned that there would continue to be conflicts with players, T20 windows, international clearances from respective boards, and much more issues that would arise as the cricketing fraternity is still adapting to embrace this format of the game.He said that a balance needs to be struck to allow all formats of the game to exist. Currently overseeing the table leaders Barbados, he stipulated that aspiring international batsmen needed to hone their craft to play all versions, and not be pigeonholed into one aspect of the game. Haynes spoke highly on the influx of sponsors, revenues and the boosts to the marketing, advertising and corporate industries of the sporting landscape.”Seasoned veterans like myself, Andy (Roberts), Gordon (Greenidge) and (Curtly) Ambrose also get to coach in something like the CPL and help develop the game with the youngsters. It’s a great opportunity to get old players, young ones and international players mingling and learning from each other.”Everyone, or most people, love T20. You’ve got to have the passion back in the stands and crowds at the games. Look at how things are happening here in the Caribbean again. People are flocking to back their franchises. Everyone’s backing each other, no matter where you’re from. It adds unity to the Caribbean and it’s doing us a lot
of good. This is a great thing for Windies cricket. The atmosphere with the fans and supporters show this right now.”

Unmukt Chand’s half-century complemented Sandeep Warrier’s three for 32 to take India Under-23 to victory over Pakistan Under-23 by three wickets in the Asian Cricket Council Emerging Teams Cup

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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsUnmukt Chand’s 103-ball 61 helped secure a three-wicket win for India•ACC/Mithilesh Mishra

Opener Unmukt Chand’s 103-ball 61 helped India Under-23s beat Pakistan Under-23s by three-wickets in a close match at the ACC Emerging Teams Cup.Put in to bat, Pakistan were unable to cope with an early spell from the pacers Sandeep Warrier and Sandeep Sharma, who dismissed top-order batsmen Babar Azam, Azeem Ghumman and Bilawal Bhatti within 10 overs to leave Pakistan struggling at 22 for 3.An 85-run fourth-wicket partnership between Usman Salahuddin and Umar Waheed stabilised Pakistan’s innings. However, Waheed gave his wicket away in the 36th over, his mistimed drive against left-arm spinner Akshar Patel reaching only as far as mid-on.Following the breakthrough, India seized the advantage by dismissing Mohammad Nawaz and Hammad Azam in quick succession. Salahuddin made a unhurried 61, but was eventually caught at cover by Baba Aparajith off Warrier, who was named the Man of the Match for his figures of three for 32. Wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan struck a 21-ball 25 to push Pakistan to the cusp of 200.Set 192 to chase, India began slowly, but comfortably, with the openers Chand and Lokesh Rahul involved in an 84-run stand to put India in a very healthy position.However, Rahul’s wicket in the 26th over got Pakistan back in the game, as left-arm spinner Raza Hasan, who had returned to competitive cricket in March after suffering a serious injury to his spine in December, took two wickets, including that of Chand’s in the 38th over. Bhatti chimed in with a wicket and Nawaz took his second to leave India at 150 for 5, and needing 42 off 49.Ashok Menaria calmed the nerves by smashing two sixes and a four during his 9-ball 18, before becoming Hasan’s third victim in the 48th over. But with just one run to win, Aparajith took India home.

Centuries from Vijay Zol and captain Abhishek Nayar ensured India A held on for a draw against New Zealand A in Visakhapatnam

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ScorecardZol struck a ton on first-class debut•BCCI

Centuries from Vijay Zol and captain Abhishek Nayar ensured India A held on for a draw against New Zealand A in Visakhapatnam on the final day. Zol also brought up a maiden century on first-class debut in the process.Responding to a strong first-innings total of 310, thanks largely to Luke Ronchi’s 125, India began the third day on 6 for 1 after Unmukt Chand fell late on the second day. Sarabjit Ladda, the nightwatchman, fell in the 18th over to leave India at 49 for 2.In came Zol, who has been in red-hot form having posted scores of 128, 173 and 128 in the last few months, and along with Jiwanjot Singh, constructed a partnership of 77 for the third wicket.Jiwanjot fell just two short of his half-century, bringing Manprit Juneja to the crease. Zol continued going from strength to strength, putting on a 97-run stand for the fourth wicket with Juneja. When Juneja was dismissed on 43 by Todd Astle, India were 77 behind the New Zealand total.Abhishek Nayar stepped in and played a responsible knock, aiding Zol to a century on his first-class debut. Zol was bowled by Carl Cachopa after the pair had added 60 runs,. A small string of partnerships followed, as India looked to bat out time till stumps. Nayar stayed unbeaten on 102, while Astle was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 106.The teams are scheduled to meet again for a four-day match on the same ground from September 2.

Hot Spot will not be available to third umpires during the Ashes in Australia after Channel Nine chose to remove the technology

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Oct-2013Hot Spot will not be available to third umpires during the Ashes in Australia after Channel Nine chose to remove the technology. Decisions will now be subject to analysis by the Eagle Eye ball-tracker, audio from the stump microphones and slow-motion replays in case of a review.Warren Brennan, the inventor of Hot Spot confirmed the development, saying the decision had been finalised as far as the use of technology was concerned. “It’s their decision and that’s what has been communicated to us. As far as I’m concerned, it is final,” Brennan told the . ”We’re just moving on with things. Channel Nine have got a new deal with Cricket Australia, which I know has cost them a lot more money. I gather there had to be some restructuring of costs.”The costs of installing Hot Spot are around Aus $10,000 a day for a four-camera system installed by Nine, which uses infra-red imaging to determine contact between the ball, bat or pad – that puts the series cost of Hot Spot at approximately Aus $250,000. While the cost was a major determinant, the poor performance of the technology, especially during the Ashes in England, earlier this year was also a factor.Hot Spot came under criticism during the Ashes series for various reasons, including the silicon-tape controversy. Before the fourth Test in Durham, a Channel Nine report alleged that a few England batsmen used silicon tape on the edge of their bats to evade Hot Spot – charges that were denied by England captain Alastair Cook and the ECB. Brennan released a statement and called for protective coatings to be removed from bats.He conceded that these issues were a factor in Channel Nine’s decision to axe Hot Spot, and reiterated his claim of bat coatings hampering the effectiveness of the system. “The point that I was trying to make was that it does significantly affect us,” he said. ”The testing that we’ve done, and I haven’t released that testing yet, is that when the coatings are on it does affect the Hot Spot signature.”Brennan expressed his disappointment at Cricket Australia’s refusal to intervene, or to subsidise the cost of the technology. “I don’t have a beef with Channel Nine,” Brennan said. ”The disappointing thing for us is that Cricket Australia didn’t engage at all with us to try and come on board and help with this situation. They just said, ‘No, it’s got nothing to do with us. It’s Channel Nine’s responsibility.’ What’s disappointing is we work in four countries at the moment – well, until recently. Cricket Australia is the only body that doesn’t contribute to our costs for the DRS components.”New Zealand contribute directly to us, the ECB contribute and also South Africa. My only beef is with Cricket Australia because we tried to engage with them several weeks ago and they refused. We need to continue to invest and improve the product so that everybody thinks it’s getting better. If bodies like Cricket Australia won’t come on board and contribute to that, there’s not really any point in us continuing.”

Batsman Litton Das and left-arm fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman, both uncapped, have been included in the Bangladesh squad for the only T20 international against Pakistan

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Apr-2015Batsman Litton Das and left-arm fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman, both uncapped, have been included in the Bangladesh squad for the only T20 international against Pakistan. They have replaced Mominul Haque and Rubel Hossain – who has been rested – in the team that won the ODI series.”Mustafizur’s inclusion may come as a surprise to some but he has impressed during his time with the Under-19s and the A team,” Faruque Ahmed, the chairman of selectors, said. “He is an intelligent bowler with good variation which is required in T20 cricket. Besides, being a left-arm seamer he gives us a different option.”Litton has been under our radar for a while now and he has the runs behind him in first class and list A cricket. He is one for the future.”We have decided to rest Rubel in order to keep him fresh for the Test series as he is our main strike bowler.”Mustafizur, 19, made his first-class debut only in April 2014. He was also in the Bangladesh U-19 team and toured West Indies with the A side last year. He has a whippy action and bowls fairly quickly.Bangladesh T20 squad Tamim Iqbal, Rony Talukdar, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mahmudullah, Nasir Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Mashrafe Mortaza, Taskin Ahmed, Abul Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Arafat Sunny

Leicestershire slid to 78 all out and a heavy defeat against Lancashire as Tom Bailey’s maiden five-wicket haul revived memories of their desperate recent seasons

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ScorecardTom Bailey took his maiden five-wicket haul•Getty Images

Leicestershire replaced their coach, captain, chief executive and overseas player over the winter and the impact of those changes was seen in vaguely encouraging performances from their opening four matches. But here was an ugly reminder of the progress they still have to make as they completely capitulated on the fourth afternoon, bowled out for 78 in a repeat embarrassment of the horrors of 2014.Tom Bailey – only playing here because Peter Siddle has left to join up with the Australian Test squad – took his maiden five-wicket haul, and together with Kyle Jarvis ran through Leicestershire, sharing seven wickets for Lancashire’s third win of the season. Surely even the most optimistic in the visitors’ dressing room did not believe they would be back on the bus with a jug of Wainwright by 5pm.

Cosgrove calm after “little setback”

Tom Bailey

“I’ve been playing seconds for four years so I’ve been chomping at the bit to get a chance. Last week I felt off form but I’ve done some work with Glen Chapple between games and it’s really helped me. When it’s not swinging I’ve been struggling so I’ve been working to get some pace behind the ball.

“We’ve got an exciting attack. We had Chappie, Hogg, Kabir Ali last year and we’ve lost all of them so to be still be seen as favourites for the title is a big thing and there’s a lot of pressure on us. But we’re a young bunch of lads and looking forward to it.”

Mark Cosgrove

“We’ve come so far this year and played some good cricket so to put in a performance like that is very disappointing. The top five didn’t do their job. The pitch was fine. You look back to day one, if we’d have caught our catches it could have been different.

“The dressing room is really good at the moment, it’s enthusiastic, we know we’re moving forward and this is just a little setback. If we show what we’re about at Essex next week this will be forgotten.”

Most observers also thought Leicestershire had more fight in them than this. The ball continued to swing but wickets were not taken with miracle deliveries: Neil Pinner hooked Jarvis down long leg’s throat; Clint McKay played the same stroke to be caught by wicketkeeper Alex Davies running out to square leg; captain Mark Cosgrove – to his second ball – attempted the same shot, thought against it but not in time and spooned a catch to Davies; Ned Eckersley simply missed a straight ball from Bailey.Leicestershire were asked to survive 59 overs to save the match and the pessimistic in the ground recalled last year’s match here against Hampshire where Leicestershire were fired out for 96 in 31.4 overs. Perhaps the team themselves could not get that afternoon out of their heads either. They were seven down after 14.2 overs having lost 7 for 9 in 47 balls. Tom Wells and Clint McKay at least managed to survive for seven overs to take the game into the final session and avoid Leicestershire’s lowest score against Lancashire at Grace Road of 47.There were happier experiences for Leicestershire to draw on from the opening four rounds of this season. They produced spirited responses to scoreboard pressure both at home to Glamorgan and in the wake of Kevin Pietersen’s 355 at The Oval. But it was the Leicestershire of last season that re-emerged here in a performance that will greatly frustrate the new management.The carnage was brewed in the sixth over. Jarvis jagged one back sharply to rip through Lewis Hill but past the inside edge and off stump. Hill then drove loosely just short of backward point before being struck on the pad, only for an inside edge to save him. Hill, flustered, edged Bailey low to Paul Horton at first slip in the next over.Three poor dismissals of Eckersley, Cosgrove and Pinner followed before Angus Robson was also caught in the cordon off Bailey, who claimed his five-for with an inswinger to take out Ben Raine’s off stump and a catch at second slip offered by Niall O’Brien – who spoke of Leicestershire’s solid chance of winning on the third evening.To force victory themselves, Leicestershire needed a run of morning wickets but with heavy cloud cover and an 11 over old ball they only managed a couple of lbws as Ashwell Prince and Alex Davies shared the highest partnership of the match: 107 at just under a run-a-ball.Davies impressively upped the scoring rate in a 50-ball half-century, his fourth in the Championship this season. He was busy, played the gaps well and ran hard between the wickets. Twice he skipped down the track to lift Charlie Shreck over his head. Prince, not as fluent as Davies, went to his own fifty in 85 balls with one of several wild edges, this through third man. Lancashire went to a rain-induced early lunch with 64 runs in 62 balls but even though they took 10 overs of the afternoon before declaring, they still found more than enough time to secure victory.

Sam Northeast’s prolific season has failed to win recognition in England’s Twenty20 squad for the one-off international against New Zealand but he found consolation when his 90 from 52 balls squeezed Kent to a six-wicket victory against Essex at Canterbur

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ScorecardSam Northeast’s prolific season has failed to win recognition in England’s Twenty20 squad for the one-off international against New Zealand at Old Trafford, but he found consolation when his 90 from 52 balls squeezed Kent to a six-wicket victory against Essex at Canterbury. Kent went second, behind leaders Hampshire on run-rate. But it was tighter than it should have been.Kent were cruising towards their target of 174: 47 to win from six overs with nine wickets left and Northeast and Daniel Bell-Drummond sharing a second-wicket stand of 122 in 13.2 overs. But next ball Graham Napier bowled Bell-Drummond for 61, there was a canny over from Ravi Bopara and suddenly the requirement was 19 from 12 balls and Northeast, the leading run-scorer in this season’s competition, was facing the unpredictable pace of the Australian, Shaun Tait.The first ball was a full toss, Northeast hoiked it through mid-on for four, and when three further boundaries followed from the next three balls – a pull to fine leg, a backing-away smear through extra-cover and a hit down the ground, the game was Kent’s. Northeast clipped the fifth ball of the over to short midwicket with the scores level but Alex Blake completed the victory the next ball.Kent’s T20 season is motoring again. That England will one day come looking at Northeast seems likely, although competition is hot at the top of the order. Kent will hope they watch him on Finals Day. “I took the captaincy over when I was in a good place and that was important,” he said. “It has gone from there. We play on some really good pitches here at Canterbury, we want to play an attacking style of cricket and these wickets are allowing our batters to do that.”Reece Topley, the third left-arm quick called up by England in recent weeks, as much in hope as expectation, arguably answers a more pressing need. There has been David Willey, fulfilling the desire for attacking cricketers but so far with little to show for it, in the ODI series against New Zealand; Mark Footitt, the leading wicket-taker in the country in 2014, summoned to the pre-Ashes camp in Spain; and now Topley, whose call up for England’s T20 squad against New Zealand was delivered by phone to his father, Don, who had just woken up from a post-lunch nap and, by his own admission, took a while to show the requisite excitement.Topley has the ability to swing the ball back. He certainty has the tattoos. It is to be hoped that he no longer has the injuries that, at 21, have so disrupted his early career. But after claiming the early wicket of Joe Denly, he surrendered to the dominance of Northeast – who got off the mark by striking David Masters straight for six – and Bell-Drummond on an increasingly nonchalant run chase.Essex might have hoped to push Kent harder, their 173 for 6 challenging, but not as daunting as they might have hoped. Both Hampshire and Gloucestershire had bullied the Kent attack in recent times, making light of challenging scores. That Kent’s batting is where the excitement lies seemed a fair conclusion from the evidence so far. It is excitement worth sampling.That would have encouraged Essex to have visions of 200 after Jesse Ryder got them off to a flyer. Mitch Claydon, who had shot to prominence by tying down Chris Gayle with a century to his name, in the final overs at Taunton, was tamed as Ryder helped himself for five successive boundaries.It was not the most propitious time for Ivan Thomas, a regular in the Championship side this year, to make his Twenty20 debut, but he made a memorable intervention, a slower ball dropping onto Ryder’s boot to have him lbw first ball, a pre-meditated sweep defeated. Figures of 1 for 22 in four overs with nine dot balls were a fine effort.It was Mark Pettini’s half-century that held Essex together, assisted by James Tredwell’s failure to cling to a sharp return catch on 36, but he lost impetus – and much of the strike – and by the time he perished at deep midwicket against Matt Coles for 56 from 45 balls only 11 balls remained.Ravi Bopara cut a strangely serious figure, his innings finally threatening to cut loose when Ryan Davies, Kent’s England Under-19 wicketkeeper, in only his second T20 match, pulled off a slightly awkward stumping off Darren Stevens.In Kent’s multi coloured kit, the veteran Stevens and the younger, but strikingly hefty Matt Coles, might have been a couple of decorators returning from speed-painting a children’s nursery in a myriad of bright colours. That they got the job done efficiently could not be faulted. No need, on this occasion, to summon the Poles.

Marchant de Lange will replace Lasith Malinga in the Amazon Warriors squad, while Jeevan Mendis has been named as a replacement for the injured Justin Ontong for the Barbados Tridents

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Jun-2015South Africa fast bowler Marchant de Lange has been confirmed as a replacement for Lasith Malinga, who has been ruled out of the tournament due to injury, in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad ahead of the start of the Caribbean Premier League on June 20. Also, Sri Lanka allrounder Jeevan Mendis will replace the injured Justin Ontong in the Barbados Tridents squad.Umar Akmal, the Pakistan batsman, and South Africa allrounder David Wiese will also join Amazon Warriors midway through the tournament to replace Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thisara Perera, who are expected to play for Sri Lanka against Pakistan in a five-ODI series beginning on July 11.Two more squad changes were also announced by the CPL. Young wicketkeeper Nicolas Pooran has been ruled out of the tournament due to injury and has been replaced in the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots squad by Shane Dowrich.Allrounder Shakib Al Hasan has also had to withdraw from the tournament due to his commitments with Bangladesh, who host three ODIs against India followed by a home series against South Africa that runs through August 3. His place in the St Lucia Zouks squad will be taken up for the first four games by Eddie Leie for the first four games before Nathan McCullum joins the squad for the remainder of the tournament.

Scotland captain Preston Mommsen has expressed relief at having secured the full four points from a pair of WCL Championship outings against Nepal after both contests were marred by poor weather

Peter Della Penna01-Aug-2015Scotland captain Preston Mommsen has expressed relief at having secured the full four points from a pair of WCL Championship outings against Nepal after both contests were marred by poor weather. The two wins put Scotland level on four points with the Netherlands after the first round of play, with both sides scheduled to face off later this summer at the start of round two.”Very happy, very satisfied to come away with four points,” Mommsen said after Scotland’s nine-wicket win on Duckworth-Lewis over Nepal following the continuation of the game into Saturday’s reserve day. “That’s obviously what we wanted to come away with at the start. There were some challenges with the weather but we got through it, so credit to the ground staff here for getting us on.”Several days of rain in the lead-up to the first match on Wednesday resulted in a wet outfield that caused play to be reduced to 36 overs. Scotland was able to hold off a furious Nepal rally in a three-run win while the hosts won a key toss on Friday morning to put Nepal in under difficult conditions with rain falling intermittently in the first innings, but never enough to take the players off.”Obviously winning the toss and bowling first in pretty helpful conditions, it was a fresh wicket,” Mommsen said. “There was some steady rain throughout our bowling innings so that kind of gave the surface a little bit more grease and a little bit more carry for our seam bowlers. I think we showed if there is anything in the wicket, we’re certainly capable of finding that and it was slightly more difficult for them to bat on.”With the second innings target reduced from 168 in 50 overs to 110 in 22, the team reprised their explosive efforts during the World T20 Qualifiers last month. A 91-run stand between George Munsey and Matthew Cross allowed Scotland to reach the target in just 13.5 overs and Mommsen praised the pair’s aggression.”That’s the way we like to play,” Mommsen said. “You would have seen that in the last few weeks and it was no different here. We want to put pressure on the bowlers and take the attack to the opposition. Crossy and Munsey did that very well today. That’s something that as a team, we’re trying to develop, the intent to hit boundaries and at the same time knocking it around and being very busy, which those two were.”Though Mommsen was satisfied with the batting and bowling efforts, he still feels that there is plenty of room for improvement in the fielding department. Nepal captain Paras Khadka was dropped twice on Wednesday during his near match-winning partnership with Anil Mandal and the memory of Michael Leask dropping Wesley Barresi on 31 before he made 75 in Netherlands’ 32-run win over Scotland at Edinburgh during the World T20 Qualifier is still fresh in the mind.”There’s obviously still huge amounts that we need to work on, in particular the fielding. We were below par in these last two games. In the qualifiers, it let us down against the Dutch heavily, dropped catches. So that’s something we need to address and set about some new plans moving forward to make sure we improve that part of our game.”On the bright side, Mommsen was positive about the depth shown in winning the World T20 Qualifiers last month without county players Matt Machan and Freddie Coleman, while both players and seamer Josh Davey were also absent for the wins over Nepal. The captain expects competition for spots to get more intense in the lead-up to the upcoming Intercontinental Cup and WCL Championship fixtures against Netherlands.”Guys will have a few days off and then come together. We’ve got some fixtures against some County 2nd XI teams in the coming week and then we have the Dutch series in Holland. They’ll be crucial games. That will be a strong Dutch team, so we’ll have to be at our best.”