ST. JOHNS, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today announced the West Indies Under-19 squad to participate in the upcoming Regional Super 50 Tournament.

The 14-member squad includes five players who were part of the team which won the ICC Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh last year. 

These are allrounders Shamar Springer and Keemo Paul; middle-order batsman Kirstan Kallicharan; wicket-keeper/batsman Emmanuel Stewart; and left-arm fast bowler Obed McCoy.

 The West Indies Under-19s are participating in this tournament as part of their preparation for the ICC Under-19 World Cup, to be played in New Zealand next year. Springer, Paul and McCoy will not be eligible for that tournament, but have be selected as part of their continued development and monitoring.

 Head Coach Graeme West outlined the details behind the team’s preparations.

 “We have a really fantastic group of players selected for this tournament and we believe they will do very well. We had a camp in Grenada before Christmas, which went really well. We will have another camp here in Antigua in the build-up to this event, which should get us in the right frame of mind as we play against older and more experienced opposition,” West said.

 “On the team, we have included three ‘over-aged’ players – Springer, Paul and McCoy – to add a bit of strength especially to the seam bowling department. They are three quality bowlers, and they can bat as well, and we believe will serve West Indies cricket very well in the future.”

 The West Indies Under-19s will play in Zone A which is based in Antigua. They will play alongside defending champions Trinidad & Tobago Red Force, Windward Islands Volcanoes, Kent Spitfire and host team Leeward Islands Hurricanes.

FULL SQUAD

Te-Shawn Alleyne

Alick Athanaze

Joshua Bishop

Shian Brathwaite

Kirstan Kallicharan

Mikyle Louis

Obed McCoy

Matthew Patrick

Keemo Paul

Jeavor Royal         

Javier Spencer

Shamar Springer

Emmanuel Stewart

Bhaskar Yadram

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

very good idea..when they shine going against the higher level then a diamond could be amongst them.
Jimmy doing his ting already?

In reply to Raggs


Our u-19 always played in the regional competition in a world cup year

In reply to Raggs

Weak , weak set up, the u19 belong in a debvelopment league

In reply to tc1

What development league?

In reply to tc1
What happened to young Holder? He played for CCC last year.

In reply to tc1...

Surprisingly and disappointing that Kian Pemberton the pacer from Nevis did not make the cut and opener Tyrone Williams (Runako's half brother) despite being topscorer at the U19 one-day tournament was not invited to camp. Yes he is over age but so are some of the players selected.

Kian was at least invited to the Leewards training squad for the Super 50.

In reply to buds

a league below the regional league, have you even see any u19 team/ or u23 in the major 6 test teams playing in the professional set up, only in the WI we want to bring 19 yo in the professional set up.

In reply to openning

I was going to ask u the same, have not heard anything about him.

they selected 3 promising youth players that performed at the last world cup and you talking shoite about 2 avg players.

these 3 players as much promise they have, could not make it to one of the so-called 'professional teams'.

They were only 2 players from the WC team that are developed to move up the ladder- Hetemyer and Joseph.

In reply to tc1

As NattyForever said---" This is the development league "--