NORTH Piddle’s Charlotte Pykett is in the eight-strong United Kingdom team for July’s Polocrosse World Cup in South Africa.

Cotswold club player and former Bowbrook House School pupil Pykett, who represented the under 21s in 2005 when just 16, figured at the 2011 world cup.

The team travel to South Africa at the end of June to spend a week working with their pool of horses.

They will tackle South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, double world champions Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and USA.