Shamilia Connell

A right-arm fast bowler from Barbados, Shamilia Connell is currently the leader of the West Indian pace attack. She made her international debut in 2014 in a T20I against New Zealand and months later, debuted in WODIs as well against Australia.

Connell was a part of the winning World Cup squad in 2016 when West Indies were champions in the World Twenty20.

On her ODI debut against Australia, Connell was compared to the legendary Joel Garner for being tall, dangerously quick and not scared to bowl bouncers.

"She'd be close to the tallest player any of us have played against and she got some pretty good bounce and pace off the wicket," said Ellyse Perry of Connell after she gave Australian captain Meg Lanning a working over. "It certainly made it pretty exciting to have someone like her running in like that.

"She gets natural bounce but when she drops it a bit shorter it gets up there. I think Meg is wearing a few bruises courtesy of her . . . we haven't seen much of Shamilia but she has potential."

In 2018 she was awarded a women's contract from Cricket West Indies and a central contract soon followed in 2021.