Ireland announce training squad for World Cup qualifiers in november in Pakistan
Sept 07, 2007
Ireland have announced a 20-member winter training squad ahead of the World Cup qualifiers in Pakistan in November.The squad will be reduced to 14 players on October 2.
Ireland Squad: Amy Kenealy, Anne Linehan, Caitriona Beggs, Carole McGuire, Cathy Murphy, Cecilia Joyce, Ciara Metcalfe, Clare Shillington, Eimear Richardson, Elaine Nolan, Emma Beamish, Heather Whelan, Isobel Joyce, Jean Carroll, Jill Whelan, Jillian Smythe, Jo Day, Marianne Herbert, Melissa Scott-Hayward, Nicki Coffey.
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
