Deandra Dottin makes a long awaited return to the West Indies squad after a lengthy spell on the side-lines. She is the Windies most capped T20I player, with 74 full appearances, and is arguably their most effective T20 batter. Combining the strike rate and average can give an indication of the batters' effectiveness in T20 cricket, and in the West Indies squad, Dottin is head and shoulders above the rest.

The batting unit as a whole looks strong with the Windies having three players featured on a chart of the highest strike rate and dismissal rates of batters currently playing Women’s T20 international cricket.

The return of pace bowlers Shamilia Connell and Shakera Selman from injury will bolster the seam bowling unit and can provide invaluable experience and guidance for the talented fast bowling prospect, Cherry Ann Fraser. The tournament is being held in a host nation where conditions are famously favourable for pace bowling, and with a strong roster of quicks, the results could prove devastating if the seamers fire on all cylinders.

PitchViz pace rating evaluates available historic ball-tracking data to assess how easy or difficult the batting conditions are, and in this instance how quick the pitch is, giving a rating of 0-10 (0 easy, 10 hard).

Some of the host grounds in this tournament have some of the quickest pitches in the world, and Australia overall has the fastest pitches on the planet. The Windies quick bowling contingent will therefore be extremely excited about the prospect of hard, fast and bouncing wickets.

Captain Stafanie Taylor will be leading a threatening spin bowling trio completed by Hayley Matthews and Anisa Mohammed. Taylor and Matthews have good bowling experience in Australia, with 49 and 33 competitive T20 wickets between them, at an average of 18.51 and 23.33 respectively.

Historically in competitive Women’s T20 cricket played in Australia, the spin and seam bowling records are remarkably even, both claiming a wicket around every 24.5 runs and every 22 deliveries. So as much as it can be said that the pace bowlers will be the biggest threat in this iteration of the World T20, the spinners have been shown to be just as important down under. If the Windies are to go all the way in the tournament, Taylor and the other slow bowlers will need to be at their best.