England’s women get their tour of the West Indies underway tomorrow as holders of the World Cup, the World Twenty20 and the Ashes.

It is a position of strength that has allowed them to arrive in St. Kitts without two of their best players – Wisden Cricketer of the Year Claire Taylor, who has stayed at home to work on her career as a management consultant at Reading University, and Sarah Taylor, who is being rested and will undergo “a focused period of physical regeneration and conditioning over the next two months”.

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