The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
To develop the following, let us first identify the head coaches of the four Stanford 20/20 semi final teams.
Defending champion Guyana has Albert Smith as their lead tactician while Jamaica has Junior Bennett. Neither has played international cricket but Smith coached Guyana to the championship in 2006 while Bennett is highly regarded in his native Jamaica after his impressive work with their youth cricketers.
South Africa set up what could be a Group B deciding showdown with India tomorrow as the junior Proteas beat an in-form West Indies side by three wickets in a see-saw game at Kinrara Oval.
With India having beaten Papua New Guinea in the opening fixture of the ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup both teams are now on one win from one and so whichever side wins tomorrow is assured of progressing through to the Super League stage of the game.
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West Indies captain Chris Gayle is ready for a return to competitive cricket after a spate of injuries caused him to miss the latter half of the recent South Africa tour.
Gayle has been added to Jamaica's squad to play against Nevis in the the Stanford 20/20 on February 16. He takes over the captaincy from Tamar Lambert, who was dropped altogether from the side.
Andre Browne and Ahmed Mohammed, neither of whom played in Trinidad's opening game against the St Lucia Pro Team, make way for the West Indies pair.