Fri, Jul 31, '15
CANADA vs GUYANA
Canada 138 all out (34.1 overs), Guyana 142 for 6 (27.2 overs)
Result: Guyana Under-19s won by 4 wickets
Points: Guyana Under-19s 6.8 (6 for victory + 0.8 for fast bowling wickets), Canada 0
LEEWARDS vs TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Lewward Islands 235 for 9 (50 overs) Trindad & Tobago Did not bat due to wet conditions
Result: No-result
Points: Trinidad & Tobago 2.1 (2 for no-result + 0.1 fast bowling points), Leewards 2 (2 for no-result)
BARBADOS vs JAMAICA
Barbados 212 all out (47 overs) Jamaica 252 all out
result Jamaica won by 39 runs.
Under 19 Points Table
Team Points
Guyana 32.0
Jamaica 27.5
Trinidad & Tobago 22.6
Windward Islands 20.3
Leeward Islands 15.9
Barbados 14.9
Canada 7.1
Guyana and Jamaica advance to Sunday's Final at Manchester High School
Fri, Jul 31, '15
"It will never be worth even a tiny fraction of the likes of the IPL as this is a small economic region going through hard times, but we will move into profitable territory from next year," O'Donohoe said.
The 2015 Caribbean Premier League offered a delightful dream in contrast to the never-ending nightmare that has been the plight of the West Indies cricket fan over the last two decades. Capacity crowds were riveted by close finishes as the game was invigorated by this year's tournament - as it has been in the first two editions of the competition.
A league that now begins to rival the highly successful Indian Premier League and Australia's Big Bash for the quality of cricket and entertainment on offer, enthralled the Caribbean islands at exactly the time that the shambolic WICB would learn that West Indies will not qualify for the 2017 Champions Trophy.
The CPL is the hottest ticket the region has seen for some time. Scalpers were openly selling tickets for the final outside the Queen's Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain for a minimum of US$300, and tickets for the two qualifiers before that weren't much cheaper.
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Fri, Jul 31, '15
Former West Indies selector Michael Findlay says the Caribbean team has only themselves to blame if they do not qualify for the ICC 2017 Champions Trophy.
The top eight ranked International Cricket Council (ICC) teams qualify for the ODI competition in two year’s time. But with the tri-nations tournament between Zimbabwe, West Indies and Pakistan now officially off, the West Indies are now ranked ninth and outside the qualification criteria and will have no other opportunity to improve their ranking before the September 30 cut-off date.
“Like most West Indians, I am disappointed that the West Indies won’t be going to that tournament. But we have only ourselves to blame because we haven’t been playing good cricket,” Findlay told the Express.
Findlay said that the West Indies being in ninth position in the ICC rankings emphasises the poor state of WI cricket.
Fri, Jul 31, '15
West Indies will no longer be touring Zimbabwe. While the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is still looking at other avenues to give the regional side a chance at qualifying for the 2017 Champions Trophy, India is not one of them.
WICB CEO Michael Muirhead told the Trinidad Express yesterday the Zimbabwe tour was definitely off, after Pakistan pulled out of the tri-nations One-Day International series which was scheduled to be played in August.
Only the top-seven sides as of September 30, apart from hosts England, will make it to the 2017 Champions Trophy and the tri-nations series was the only ODI engagement the West Indies had scheduled after the World Cup.