France Cricket have announced the senior men’s and women’s squads for the 2021 International events. While the Women’s squad will be making their maiden appearance in an ICC event during the Women’s T20 World Cup Europe regional qualifiers in Scotland in August 2021, the Men’s squad will be playing a 4-nation T20I series in Germany, followed by the Men’s T20 World Cup Europe sub-regional qualifiers in Finland.
France Women will be competing against Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland, Germany and Turkey in the 6-nation tournament, from which the top team will qualify for the global qualifiers, and there will be opportunity for the team finishing second as well, as the final position in the 8-nation global qualifiers will be filled by the highest ranked team in the regional qualifiers on the November cut-off date, who missed out on topping their regional event table.
France Women Squad
Lara Armas, Sabine Baron, Emmanuelle Brelivet, Cindy Breteche, Tara Britton, Ali Brodin, Maelle Cargouet, Emma Chance, Thea Graham, Jennifer King, Louise Lestavel, Sabine Lieury, Magali Marchello, Sophie Pecaud, Beatrice Pierre, Tracy Rodriguez, Marie Violleau and Irma Vrignaud
France Men will compete against Germany, Spain and Norway in the quadrangular series from May 13th – 16th, before travelling to Finland to take part in the sub-regional qualifiers, where they will face Bulgaria, Cyprus, Israel, Italy, Malta, Norway and Spain from 08th – 13th July 2021, from which the top team will qualify for Europe regional finals in Spain.
France Men Squad
Abdulmalik Jabarkhel, Alestin Johnmary, Ali Virk Mohammad, Hevit Alodin Jackson, Jubaid Ahamed, Kishan Patel, Lingeswarane Canessane, Mobashar Ashraf, Mouhammad Dawood Ahmadzai, Mustafa Omer, Noman Amjad, Shikdar Yeasin, Sulaiman Khan, Suventhiran Santhirakumaran, Usman Shahid, Waseem Bhatti and Zain Ahmad