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Four new caps in CLEAR White Ferns to tour India New Zealand Cricket - 2 October 2001
The CLEAR White Ferns are reaping the benefit of including women players in the New Zealand Cricket Academy with three of the four new caps named to tour India attending the Academy over the past winter. New Zealand is the only cricketing nation who has opened its Academy doors to female players. Sarah Burke (19), Aimee Mason (18), and Fiona Fraser (21) have all spent the past seven months attending the residential Academy at Lincoln University. Cantabrians Fiona Fraser and Sarah Burke are both promising pace bowlers, with Fraser also excelling with the bat. Mason is an all-rounder who came to prominence as a member of the New Plymouth Girls' High school team which won last summer's Yoplait Cup secondary schoolgirls' competition. The fourth new cap is Wellington's Anna Corbin, whose accurate right-arm off-spin bowling earned her the best economy rate in last year's interprovincial competition, the State Insurance Cup, at 2.18. The full squad is:
Emily Drumm (captain, State Auckland Hearts) The CLEAR White Ferns will contest three tour matches, five One-Day Internationals and a four-day Test match, during the 3 1/2 week tour of India. The door was opened for the four new caps by the retirement of our greatest women's cricketer, Debbie Hockley, and veteran off-spinner Catherine Campbell who finished their long careers on the ultimate high note when the CLEAR White Ferns were crowned world champions last summer. Two other players from the victorious World Cup side are not included in this squad - pace bowler Katrina Keenan and off-spinner Clare Nicholson - who have chosen to sit out this season. However the loss of these four senior players is offset to a degree by the depth of experience of those who remain. Eleven of the World Cup squad remain and five of the team - Rolls, Ramel, Pullar, Drumm, Payne - have all toured India before, when New Zealand competed in the 1997 Women's World Cup. In that tournament New Zealand lost in the final to Australia. Coach of the CLEAR White Ferns, Mike Shrimpton, has also coached in Indian conditions, leading a New Zealand Under 19 team abroad in 1992. The remaining members of the management team are Cantabrian, Cate Sexton as manager, and the newly appointed physiotherapist, Angela Cadogan of Auckland. The CLEAR White Ferns selection panel also has a new face this summer with former international Kirsty Flavell assisting Lesley Murdoch (convenor), Eileen Badham and Mike Shrimpton. Flavell had the distinction of being the first woman to score a double-century when she hit 204 runs against England in 1996. The record was surpassed only in July when Australian Karen Rolton compiled 209 not out in her side's recent series against England. Convenor of selectors, Lesley Murdoch, said the introduction of four new players was an exciting development for the CLEAR White Ferns. "It might be thought that the loss of Debbie Hockley, Catherine Campbell and others from the World Cup squad might mean the team is in re-building phase. This is not the case and the selectors have every confidence in the maturity and skill of the four newly capped players. We expect they and the team will overcome the challenge of Indian conditions and prove extremely competitive," she said. Chief Executive of New Zealand Cricket, Martin Snedden, signalled that a decision about whether the team would depart on schedule for India would be deferred until closer to the planned departure date. "The CLEAR White Ferns are scheduled to leave for India on November 23. A decision to proceed as planned will be taken in about five weeks' time," Snedden said. The CLEAR White Ferns plan to assemble in Auckland on Wednesday 21 November. © New Zealand Cricket
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