USA Women to host MCC touring team in Philadelphia

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A USA Women’s development camp, which includes matches against a women’s Marylebone Cricket Club touring squad, will be held in Philadelphia between September 8 and 11, the ICC has announced. The matches will be the first for USA Women since they were humbled by a touring Pakistan side last November in Florida.

The ICC also announced a new USA Women’s selection panel headed by chairman of selectors Ricardo Powell and fellow men’s national selector Barney Jones. Three new female selectors will join the panel for the first time: Patricia Whittaker, Julie Abbott and Joan Alexander-Serrano.

Whittaker is a former West Indies Women’s Test cricketer who has spent more than 25 years in New York as a lawyer. In May, she was named to one of the four USA advisory panels formed by the ICC to implement …

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