Six of Kent’s cricketers have been named in the provisional 30-player England Women’s squad for the 2012 ICC Women’s World Twenty20, to be staged in the Sri Lanka in September.

Kent captain Charlotte Edwards will skipper the side with Tamsin Beaumont, Deanna Cooper, Lydia Greenway, Laura Marsh and Susie Rowe all named in the squad that will be cut to just fourteen names next month.

England Women will face Australia, India and Pakistan in the group stages beginning on Thursday 27 September against Pakistan in Galle.

Provisional 30 women England squad:

Charlotte Edwards (Kent) (Captain)
Caroline Atkins (Sussex)
Tamsin Beaumont (Kent)
Arran Brindle (Sussex)
Katherine Brunt (Yorkshire)
Holly Colvin (Sussex)
Deanna Cooper (Kent)
Kate Cross (Lancashire)
Jodie Dibble (Devon)
Georgia Elwiss (Sussex)
Lydia Greenway (Kent)
Jenny Gunn (Nottinghamshire)
Danielle Hazell (Yorkshire)
Amy Jones (Warwickshire)
Heather Knight (Berkshire)
Beth Langston (Essex)
Beth Macgregor (Essex)
Alice Macleod (Berkshire)
Laura Marsh (Kent)
Natasha Miles (Middlesex)
Beth Morgan (Middlesex)
Fiona Morris (Gloucestershire)
Sonia Odedra (Nottinghamshire)
Susie Rowe (Kent)
Natalie Sciver (Surrey)
Helen Shipman (Warwickshire)
Anya Shrubsole (Somerset)
Sarah Taylor (Sussex)
Fran Wilson (Somerset)
Danielle Wyatt (Staffordshire)