The England Women Under 19 squad for the ICC Women’s U19 World Cup 2025 in Malaysia has been named, with Durham’s Trudy Johnson and Grace Thompson named in the squad.
Sixteen teams from around the world will take part in the 41-match event across 15 days of competition from 18 January to 2 February 2025. It will be the hosts Malaysia’s first appearance in the U19 Women’s T20 World Cup as well as Samoa’s first appearance in an ICC World Cup event.
Drawn in Group B, England take on Ireland, Pakistan and USA with all group B matches in Johor.
The second edition of the tournament comes on the back of a successful inaugural event in South Africa in 2023 where England finished as runners up after being defeated by India in a thrilling final.
Five non-travelling reserves have also been selected. The reserves won’t travel but will take a full part throughout the preparation phase and act as stand-by players should a replacement player be required: Maria Andrews (The Blaze), Sophie Beech (Central Sparks), Daisy Gibb (Southern Vipers), Poppy Tulloch (Southern Vipers), Annie Williams (The Blaze).
Recently appointed England Women U19 Performance Lead Chris Guest will lead as head coach and be assisted by former England international Beth Morgan and Dan Helesfay. Morgan represented her country for over a decade, playing seven Tests, 72 ODIs and 28 Twenty20s, featuring in the 2009 double when England won the 50-over World Cup and the ICC Women’s World Twenty20. She currently works as a Regional Talent Manager for Southern Vipers. Helesfay is an assistant coach at South East Stars and Hundred side Welsh Fire having previously been a Senior Regional Talent Manager at Western Storm.
Richard Bedbrook, Head of England Women Performance Pathways, said: “It is always an exciting time to be able to name an U19 World Cup squad and all those chosen, including the non-travelling reserve group, can be very proud of this achievement.
“The quality in the group highlights the work of each of the regional teams across both their senior and Academy environments and I, plus colleagues, are indebted to them on the development work they continue to put in.
“We hope each individual takes a huge amount from the experience they are about to have and uses it to continue developing themselves as a person and player.
“This also goes for the staff group, a number of whom across various roles are also employees of the Regional teams and who will hopefully take huge amounts of experience and enjoyment from being a part of the programme.”
Chris Guest, England Women U19 Performance Lead, also added: “What excites me most about working with the under-19 age group is the constant cycle of new talent and new groups coming through.
“We’ve named a squad which features some players who have been involved at this age group before and some who haven’t.
“This World Cup is a part of these players’ journey, not the end or the start and our message to them is to embrace the challenge, evolve ourselves and enjoy the ride. Naturally we want to do well but the programme is about developing these players in the future and for the long-term.
“It was really exciting to see Ryana MacDonald-Gay, Hannah Baker, Seren Smale and Charis Pavely feature for the senior team in Ireland after representing the U19s in the first edition of this World Cup in 2023 and this acts as real inspiration for this group and demonstrates how important this tournament can be for a player’s development.”
England Women U19 Squad
Phoebe Brett (Central Sparks), Olivia Brinsden (Thunder), Tilly Corteen-Coleman (South East Stars), Trudy Johnson (Northern Diamonds), Katie Jones (Western Storm), Charlotte Lambert (South East Stars), Abi Norgrove (Southern Vipers), Eve O’Neill (Southern Vipers), Davina Perrin (Central Sparks), Jemima Spence (South East Stars), Charlotte Stubbs (South East Stars), Amuruthaa Surenkumar (Sunrisers) ,Prisha Thanawala (The Blaze), Erin Thomas (Northern Diamonds), Grace Thompson (Northern Diamonds)