England Women name ICC World Twenty20 squad for India 2016

Anya Shrubsole, Katherine Brunt and Jenny Gunn are also part of the pace contingent travelling to India.

Brunt, who has left the tour of South Africa with a back injury, is expected to be fit for the tournament while Shrubsole, Player of the Tournament in the 2014 edition of the ICC Women’s World T20, will be hoping to build on her performances.

The spin department consists of the two off-spinning Danielles, Hazell and Wyatt, while Rebecca Grundy will provide some variety with her left-arm spin.

Edwards, Knight, Sarah Taylor, Lydia Greenway and Amy Jones will shore up the batting line-up, while Natalie Sciver and Georgia Elwiss, the all-rounders, will add firepower to the lower order.

England, which finished runner-up in Bangladesh to Australia, is in Group B alongside India, Bangladesh, West Indies and Pakistan. It will play two warm-up matches in Chennai against New Zealand and South Africa on March 12 and 14 respectively, before kicking off its campaign proper against Bangladesh in Bangalore on March 17.

Squad: Charlotte Edwards (capt), Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Georgia Elwiss, Natasha Farrant, Lydia Greenway, Rebecca Grundy, Jenny Gunn, Danielle Hazell, Amy Jones, Heather Knight (vice-capt), Natalie Sciver, Anya Shrubsole, Sarah Taylor (wk), Danielle Wyatt.