Laura Delany, 24, from Knocklyn, plays for Leinster Cricket Club (Rathmines) and captains Ireland. An all-rounder and medium-paced inswing bowler, she made her senior international debut in 2010 when she was 17, and still a fifth-year in school.

Ireland women’s captain Isobel Joyce feels her “sloppy” side underperformed in the 93-run defeat to tournament favourites New Zealand in their ICC World Twenty20 Group A opener in Mohali.