Published: Nov 22, 2015, 03:15 PM (IST)
Edited: Nov 22, 2015, 03:15 PM (IST)
Scotland’s women cricketers are ready to battle it out in ICC Women’s World T20 Qualifier in Thailand. In Scotland’s group there are three teams— Bangladesh, Thailand and Papua New Guinea. Scotland’s captain Abbi Aitken was quoted by BBC saying, “We’ve given ourselves enough time to get out there, get some training in, some warm-up games and just try and acclimatise the best we can. Our fitness has been an aspect that we’ve focused on going out there. We know the humidity is going to be tough but I think we’ve prepared ourselves well enough for the tournament ahead and hopefully we’ll do ourselves justice.” ICC Women’s World T20 qualifier 2015: Scotland women to leave today for Bangkok
“Bangladesh are the team we’re most looking forward to getting out there and playing. They have a lot of experienced and are very talented players so even to have the opportunity to share the pitch with them means we’ll learn a lot from them – and who knows what will happen on the day?” Meanwhile, Kari Carswell, Scotland coach said, “There’s a few of us who played in our last global event but for a lot of these girls it’s the biggest competition of their lives. The support for this tournament has been fantastic. The biggest development has come over the last four years in terms of the number of females, girls and women who have taken up cricket and it’s great we’re keeping cricket in the news all year round, which is something that we need to do.” Women’s World T20 qualifier 2015: Scotland announce squad
“It’s great to get an opportunity to showcase our sport. As well as going along to compete, we’re also trying to inspire the younger generation. I have no family that have played the sport, no-one who understood the rules or anything. They’re still getting to know the rules, to be honest. But with a lot of the girls, their father or brother or their uncle got them into the sport so that’s really where we were. Now that cricket is in more mainstream schools it’s a lot more available to girls to go along and try.”
