Man of the Match Rovman Powell scored a quick-fire unbeaten half-century as the West Indies sealed a 35–run victory in the second T20 International against Bangladesh and take a 1-0 lead in their three-match series in Dominica on Sunday.
Chasing 194 for victory, Bangladesh scored 158-6 off their 20 overs.
Shakib al Hasan’s unbeaten 68 took the tourists close but the West Indies bowlers were always on top, notwithstanding a few big overs for Bangladesh near the end.
Romario Shepherd took 2-38 and Obed McCoy, who took wickets with the first two balls he bowled in the match, returned figures of 2-37, 20 of them conceded in the 19th over of the match.
The Barbados Under-19 female team is off to Trinidad and Tobago to compete in the West Indies Rising Stars U19 Championships which bowls off on Monday.
Barbados Cricket Association President Conde Riley and other officials greeted, encouraged, and prayed with the team at the Grantley Adams International Airport ahead of departure.
Richard Clarke, head coach of the Girls’ Under-19 team, is confident his squad will perform well.
“The ultimate goal is for this team to come out on top. I never go to competition unless I believe I can be successful, and this team will pose a lot of threat to the other teams that are taking part.”
West Indies batting great Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been appointed head coach of the USA’s Women senior and U19 teams on an 18-month contract.
The 47-year-old Chanderpaul will lead the US U19 team that will play in Cricket West Indies U19 Rising Stars T20 Championship which bowls off in Trinidad and Tobago from July 5-13.
“I am really excited to have been appointed as the head coach of the USA National Women’s team and the Women’s U19 team,” said Chanderpaul, who is also the head coach of the CPL franchise, Jamaica Tallawahs.
The fixtures for the 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and the inaugural Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) have been confirmed. The tournament will visit St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago and culminate in the final in Guyana.
The opening day of the tournament will see the Trinbago Knight Riders Women take on the Barbados Royals women before the current Men’s champions, St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, begin their title defense against the Jamaica Tallawahs.
The women’s CPL will feature four matches in the inaugural 2022 season in addition to the seven women’s games at the SKYEXCH 6IXTY which takes place immediately before Hero CPL. This is 11 matches in total, representing a big step forward in the scheduling of women’s franchise cricket in the region, with plans to grow this in subsequent years.
WEST Indies men’s lead selector Desmond Haynes said the workload of fast bowlers Jayden Seales and Alzarri Joseph must be managed, as the players are becoming consistent members of the West Indies team in different formats.
Joseph and Seales both played in the recent two-match Test series against Bangladesh.
Joseph has been included in the squads for the T20 and One Day International (ODI) series against Bangladesh and Seales is in the ODI squad. The T20 series bowls off on Saturday.
They have also been busy playing franchise T20 cricket.
Asked specifically about Joseph’s workload during a Zoom session on Wednesday, Haynes said, “It is not only Alzarri, we are very concerned about Seales as well, because what we are saying, as I mentioned earlier, I felt really bad to know that those guys had to be in Pakistan playing in those conditions and then coming home and in two days they (were) involved in a Test match (against Bangladesh).”
