West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

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Re: West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

Post by MOD-quirkilyalive » Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:06 pm

Congratulations berksowl and team on a cracker of a tour and a Division 1 promotion!
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Re: West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

Post by berksowl » Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:08 am

quirkilyalive wrote:
Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:06 pm
Congratulations berksowl and team on a cracker of a tour and a Division 1 promotion!
Thank you Sir! 4-1 with a NRR below 0. Perhaps some luck, but we'll take it! 8)

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Re: West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

Post by berksowl » Sat Oct 22, 2022 12:22 am

For those fallowing along at home, you'll have seen that West Indies U20s earned promotion back to U20 OD Div 1, finishing joint tip points, 2nd only on NRR in this tour. I call that a successful tour. Spin bowlers Nurse, Williams, and Emtage came through in a big way. Wight was also very good this tour. But man of the tour goes to top run scorer in the tour (not just us, but all teams), Pascall, who made scores of 137 not out, 72, and 32. His 137 is within the top few highest innings of all time for West Indies U19s/U20s.

Now the focus turns to the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup.

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Re: West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

Post by MOD-quirkilyalive » Mon Oct 24, 2022 6:41 pm

cracking first season at the helm berskowl, finishing Division 1 in both formats, good luck for the World Cup!
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Re: West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

Post by berksowl » Sun Dec 25, 2022 4:13 pm

First U20s tour of the season is in the books, with us having relegated out of Division 1. The tour started well with a win against world #1 U20s team Australia. The afterglow of that win soon wore off, as we lost all four subsequent games and finished dead last in the division. So we'll fight our way back from Div. 2.

Now the focus turns to T20, with a tour starting in the West Indies on 9th of January. Pitches will be -- hmm, let's see if I can remember what we bid -- crumbling, green, uneven.

Big thanks to our outgoing players, superstar opener Hollister Murray, lightning-fast bwoler John Bonitto, and keeper/batsman extraordinaire Mervyn Davis. Also two players from the just-concluded YOD tour deserve congratulations for their performances (and luckily both will be back to represent Windies U20s again): Noor Johnson with his finger-spin bowling (he took 8 wickets this last tour), and Jamero Kenda (right-handed batsman who made two half-centuries this last tour).

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Re: West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

Post by berksowl » Fri Jan 13, 2023 1:08 am

With today's win against Australia, we're sitting 3rd in this international U20s T20 tour.

https://www.fromthepavilion.org/leagueo ... 10127#curr

Speaking of that win vs. Oz: it was a nail biter. We needed 16 runs from the last over. We scored 17, thanks to Mohammed and Johnson, the latter of which hit a last ball 6. That last over also featured two missed runouts and one dropped catch. I'm glad I was at work and didn't watch, as I'd probably be in hospital right now.

Focus is now on Game 5 vs. a UAE side that is much better than their match results this tour suggest. We'll be on an uneven pitch in cloudy weather, so we should see some good quick bowling.

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Re: West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

Post by berksowl » Sat Jan 14, 2023 12:50 am

The bad news is that we did not win this T20 tour in Div. 1. But the good news is we finished 2nd, and stay in the top flight. I'll take that.

Strong performances from both openers, Murray and Chabrol; our wicketkeeper Davis; and from our seamers Jaggernauth and Mohammed.

Okay, no time to rest. Our 2nd YOD tour of the season starts 30 January. And soon after is the YOD World Cup. Very much looking forward to both.

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Re: West Indies U20 - S52 and Beyond

Post by berksowl » Mon Oct 30, 2023 2:14 pm

Hey all -- just a quick note of apology: I failed to set any match orders for today's Game 1 of the season's first Youth One Day tour. I'm sorry for this, and I'll spare you all my excuses. So we start the tour with one loss and a very bad NRR. Ireland's NRR is very high, so apologies to the other teams as well.

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