Freya Kemp ruled out of West Indies T20Is with back pain

Kemp, 17, is returning to England for exploratory scans after suffering pain that has been limiting her cricket

England Women's allrounder Freya Kemp has been ruled out of the T20I series against West Indies due to back pain.

Kemp, 17, is returning to England for exploratory scans after suffering pain that has been limiting her cricket.

The teenager only made her international debut in the summer and remarkably represented England for the first time before even playing in The Hundred, which followed the July T20I series against South Africa.

A left-arm seamer and useful batter, she became the youngest England cricketer to hit a T20I half century during the summer and she was rewarded for her emergence with a central contract in November.

By then, her breakthrough year had been recognised with awards courtesy of the Cricket Writers' Club and the Professional Cricketers' Association.

^{Kemp only made her international debut in July (Gareth Copley/Getty Images)}

England will hope her problem is nothing serious, not least with a T20 World Cup two months away. The English women's game has seen back issues previously, with Katie George and Katherine Brunt both having spent considerable time out of action. Issy Wong was ruled out of this year's Women's Big Bash to look after her back.

Kemp is the second England player to be forced home with injury, following Alice Capsey, who broke her collarbone in the ODI series opener at Antigua. She has already undergone surgery.

On Wednesday, fellow allrounder Alice Davidson-Richards was added to the T20I squad, while Maia Bouchier has replaced Capsey.

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