England opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge will be available for the second and third matches of the T20 series against India following the birth of her first child.<\/p>\n
Wyatt-Hodge, 35, missed the recent series win over New Zealand, with her partner giving birth last week.<\/p>\n
The series begins on Thursday, in Chelmsford, with the second match on Saturday and the third next Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Wyatt-Hodge’s addition to the squad is a boost to England’s T20 World Cup preparations given she would otherwise have gone into the tournament, which begins on 12 June, without a competitive international this summer.<\/p>\n
England are already without injured captain Nat Sciver-Brunt, who missed the six white-ball matches against New Zealand and will also sit out the series against India because of a calf injury.<\/p>\n
In the absence of veteran Wyatt-Hodge, Alice Capsey pressed her case at the top of the order with an unbeaten 74 to lead England to victory in the first T20 against New Zealand<\/a>. Coach Charlotte Edwards admitted on Monday she does not know her best XI<\/a>.<\/p>\n Incumbent opener Sophia Dunkley made scores of eight, 26 and 22 against the White Ferns. <\/p>\n Though Wyatt-Hodge has not played an international this summer, she was in good form with two centuries and a 96 in five 50-over matches for Surrey at the start of the season.<\/p>\n Batter Charis Pavely has returned to Warwickshire after Wyatt-Hodge’s recall but batter Maia Bouchier will stay with the squad to play India.<\/p>\n Seamer Lauren Filer has been released to play Durham for Durham against Surrey on Wednesday. She will rejoin the England squad afterwards.<\/p>\n The series provides England’s last competitive matches before the World Cup, though they play official warm-ups against Australia and India on 8 and 10 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge will be available for the second and third matches of the T20 series against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}