English pair to pad up in T20

Jackie Hawker didn't need to think twice about it.
With father Robert Hawker and older brothers Andrew and Daniel heading off to cricket at the weekends, the then 9-year-old wasn't going to be hanging out with mother Lynda.
"I didn't want to be staying at home washing dishes," Hawker says with a grin at the majestic Cornwall Cricket Club pavilion.
The former English international, here visiting former Bath Cricket Club coach David Black, will play in the Twenty20 round of women's club cricket at Marewa Park's artificial pitch today for Cornwall club against Napier Tech and Havelock North.
Fellow Englishwoman and Bath club member Jenny Withers will also join her in savouring a few matches in the southern hemisphere summer before the pair jet back to Australia on Wednesday to watch the rampant Poms complete their dismantling project of the disorientated Ockers in the remaining Ashes test series.
Next month, the Englishwomen will follow their women's international tour of Australia in Melbourne, Perth and Canberra before soaking up the fifth and final Ashes test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Plymouth-born Hawker, a former English international, follows in the tradition of former international and Bath player Hannah Lloyd who became the Hastings club's first female import player in 2003-04.
Lloyd, a Welshwoman who Hawker has played with since they were 13, went on to represent Central Districts Hinds that season before returning home to marry Richard Knight and settle down in London.
Despite a flirtatious encounter with Cornwall club, Hawker is also aiming to marry and settle down when she returns home to Devon.
"Unless, of course, I find a man here," says the allrounder who turns 30 on February 21 and is here after spending a few days in Queenstown after Australia.
For the Somerset County player who represented England at under-23 level, Hawke came to prominence in the women's club scene in Devon one Sunday while her father was playing in a social competitive game.
"I was No11 and the opposition had a journalist playing for them. My coach also played in dad's team," says Hawker, who at the age of 10 played for the Cornwall team there against her hometown Devon side in a friendly game.
She played in boys' team which helped, especially in the leadership stakes after she was appointed captain.
"But the faster it comes the faster it goes with the boys," says Hawker, who made her ODI debut against Holland in 1999-00 before touring Australia in 2000-01 and playing her only test against India in 2001-02 when she was called up to replace an injured Claire Taylor, who played for Canterbury here last season.
"In Puna I got hit in the mouth while fielding and they dropped me," says Hawker, the pain still etched on the face of the right-hander who made her debut for England under-21 at 14.
"They never gave me a reason. They selected me too late," says the team manager for mobile phone company Orange.
She also believes focusing on her career eventually marginalised her sport to a "hobby so I enjoyed playing it".
Withers, also a Somerset player, is a right-arm offspinner.
The 23-year-old from Bristol was only 6 years old when she started playing at Blagdon Cricket Club where her father, Graham, was the chairman and older brother Jonathan, 24, honed his skills.
"I got a little bit of stick from the boys and men," says the Welsh indoor cricket international who took much pleasure this year in finishing above England (fourth place) after making her debut against Australia.
"The men are definitely bigger hitters and you have to watch how you bowl to them. The boys love to hit girls for six, but I've got some five-wicket bags," says Withers, who hopes to play for England by the time she's 25.
A hotel assistant manager, she's no stranger to New Zealand, having stayed and worked in Queenstown in 2007 after meeting some English friends here.
A steely type who swam with sharks in Napier this week, Withers toured South Africa with the Bath under-19 team in 2006.
The pair's biggest challenge is travelling on Saturday to play on Sundays in the eight-team county competition - Hawker up to eight hours one way.
"We go in a bus that has Sky TV," Withers says.