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1st "Test" (Comber) 18th-21st June 2024

Toss - WI Academy

Score:

Emerging Ireland - 219/6 (67 overs, close of play)

C.de Freitas 88, J.Layne 4/66

In reply to 4REALQUICKS

That guy DeFreitas been killing we bowlers all three previous matches and this one.

In reply to positiveg
Does he have Guyanese links?

Emerging Ireland 283
Academy 74/3

In reply to Chrissy

was wondering the same thing but of course Portugal is a lot closer to Ireland

In reply to PalsofMine
True but I wondered if he was my classmate’s brother’s grandson

In reply to Chrissy

Hey not sure, but I know that the name is Portuguese
My last name is Fraites (came from the Portugues DeFreitas, but you know how de english does things, lol)

Score Update:

Emerging Ireland 283 all out (C.de Freitas 88, M.Topping 45, T.Mayes 42, J.Layne 4/84, N.Young 3/73)
WI Academy 200/8 (K.Alleyne 47, N.Young 40*, J.Johnson 33, T.Mayes 4/50, L.McCarthy 3/61)

Pathetic from the wi academy

In reply to positiveg

Freitas means broken stones in portuguese

WI Academy were dismissed for 214 in the 50th over of their first innings. Emerging Ireland, carrying a first innings lead of 69, are currently 1/0 in the second over. Nyeem Young finished 48*

In reply to positiveg

Are you related to the Fraites from Culpepper Island?

In reply to 4REALQUICKS

Thanks, 4RQ. They battling and good to see JJ's name being mentioned and good to see Young leading from the front again. I think that once he gets his mojo back, things will improve.

I hope there is a good reason why Jewel Andrew is not playing because he is by far the best batsman on WI-A team.

full-scorecard

Close of Play, Day 2:

Emerging Ireland: 283 & 65/2
West Indies Academy: 214

The Irish lads lead by 134 runs with 8 wickets in hand.

In reply to positiveg
I know a few Guyanese Portuguese who returned to their ancestors’ homeland

In reply to 4REALQUICKS

Thanks

In reply to Chrissy

and a few made the short trip across to Trinidad!

Almost everytime I check a WI academy scorecard Nyeem Young opening the bowling...

Why aren't the frontline pacers opening the bowling? How do we expect them to develop if we keep throwing the new ball to a gentle medium pacer? He should be 1st or 2nd change.

Yall need to do better CWI, this is a developmental side!

In reply to PalsofMine
Some went to Brazil

Score and update from day three, a day in which the young West Indian Academy XI stood up and fought their way back into the game.

Emerging Ireland - 283 & 274/9 (inns closed)
WI Academy - 214 & 134/0

West Indies Academy need 210 runs to win with 10 wickets remaining.

Cade Carmichael starred for the home side with a knock of 92 from 164 balls (8 fours, 2 sixes). Captain Stephen Doheny was the only other to reach 40, as once again, Johann Layne finished with impressive figures of 5/39 from his 13 overs, to give him match figures of 9/123.

Set 344 to win, the touring side's young openers Ackeem Auguste and Kadeem Alleyne have got them off to a fantastic start, with an unbeaten stand of 134 (Alleyne is 78* off 73 balls, with 8 fours and 3 sixes. Auguste is on 42*)

And the first wicket has fallen...Ackeem Auguste out for 47. Kadeem Alleyne is unbeaten on 93, with the Academy now 158/1, needing a further 186 for victory in the first "test"

The academy have started well

Collapsing now

ireland just look more prepared and efficient .i have been impressed with layne from the regional championships.

5 wickets for zilch

6 down now

Some players are being found out, Teddy Bishop, Joshua Bishop and K James who all had decent performances in the local season have all done nothing of substance in Ireland.

Shocking last half hour or so leaves the Academy facing defeat heading into the final day, tomorrow. From a position of strength at 151/0, they lost 6 wickets for just 42 runs. They are 193/6 at the close, still 151 runs shy of their target with only 4 wickets in hand.

In reply to velo

Also the weather I think playing a factor

He cud be related to Phil De Frietas and have Dominican roots

In reply to Chrissy

I know a few Guyanese Portuguese who returned to their ancestors’ homeland

In reply to velo

I know you are, how quick is he? I know he is about 6'7''.

In reply to dayne

They destroyed Ireland in Caribbean. These are foreign conditions

In reply to Baje

Isai Thorne. Too hot to handle for the Irish

A valiant effort but ultimately, not good enough by the Academy, who fall to a 72 run defeat to the Irish.

Scores:

Emerging Ireland 283 (C.de Freitas 88, J.Layne 4/84, N.Young 3/73) & 274/9 (C.Carmichael 92, J.Layne 5/39)
WI Academy 214 (N.Young 48*, K.Alleyne 47, T.Mayes 4/61, L.McCarthy 3/62) & 271 (K.Alleyne 93, A.Auguste 47, G.Hoey 4/81, M.Humphreys 3/44, L.McCarthy 3/49)

Match two of the unofficial "test" series gets underway on Tuesday at Stormont, Belfast.

In reply to Baje

Yes, that's why these results are so disappointing, they dominated Ireland in the Caribbean, now they are being dominated. A change in conditions affects their performance that much after being in Ireland for 3 weeks and against an associate level cricket nation.

Update from day one of the second four day game...

West Indies Academy won the toss and elected to bat.

WI Academy 200 all out (56 overs) captain Teddy Bishop top scored with 69 with no other batsman reaching 30, despite starts for Ackeem Auguste, Jewel Andrew and Nyeem Young. The visitors were undone by the slow left arm spinner Matthew Humphreys who took 5/57 and medium pacer Curtis Campher who finished with figures of 3/12 from 4 overs.

At stumps, Emerging Ireland were 18/0 in reply. West Indies Academy will be hoping that the pace attack led by Johann Layne, who took 9 wickets in the first four day game last week, Ramon Simmonds, Kelvin Pitman and Nyeem Young, can get them back into the contest after their disappointing display with the bat.

i dont know why but i thought emerging ireland was just young development side but this is like a team side with established players paul sterling and balbirnie who have played over 100 first class matches and are international cricketers with some others who already play for the national side.this could give a good run to any regional side in the caribbean

In reply to positiveg

Played baseball with two De Freitas brothers here in the Virgin islands for years back in the day. I thought they were Trinis, but the younger one said family came from Dominica.

Close of play day two and the Academy are really up against it after a strong batting performance by the home side.

Scores:

WI Academy 200 all out (T.Bishop 69, M.Humphreys 5/57, C.Campher 3/12)
Emerging Ireland 397/7 (A.Balbirnie 88, A,McBrine 64, F.Hand 61*)

The home side lead by 197 runs with three first innings wickets still intact.

Hello from the Emerald Isle!

Yes I know it sounds ridiculous seeing an 'Emerging Ireland XI' with Balbirnie, Stirling, Campher, Tector, Tucker and McBrine on the teamsheet (almost 1,000 international caps between those names alone!!).

The reason for this is that with a Test match just a few weeks away the selectors decided that if we didn't reach the Super 8s in the T20 World Cup, they would use the second 4 day game to get some of the Test team back into the rhythms of red ball cricket.

Of course we spectacularly failed to reach the Super 8s but I don't want to talk about that

Btw.. some people wondering about Chris De Freitas' origins? He was born in South Africa. No Guyanese connection that I am aware of.

In reply to Eireannach

Thanks, Eire, and welcome to the MB. I hope that there will be at least a WI A Team revenge tour soon after the licking that you guys are putting on our boys. I was there for the ODI tour a few years ago and Ireland is a great place to come for cricket.

In reply to PalsofMine

Aren't we getting revenge for the licking we got last year?

I think there is a bilateral ODI series on the FTP for next year. If WICB want to send the A team over for that we won't complain

Joking aside, there is no guarantee that that series will go ahead. Some well publicised issues with hosting series over here lately

Rain is having its say during the third day but the emerging Irish remain in a strong position.

Scores update:

WI Academy 200 all out & 148/3 (A.Auguste 70*, K.Alleyne 38 )

Emerging Ireland 441 all out (A.Balbirnie 88, F.Hand 79, A.McBrine 64)

The visitors still trail by 93 runs with 7 second innings wickets in hand.

Rain stopped play.

Final day, the result appears to heading in favour of the home side...

WI Academy 200 & 258/8 (A.Auguste 93, C.Bowen-Tuckett 41, M.Humphreys 5/44) lead Emerging Ireland 441, by 17 runs with two second innings wickets remaining.

In reply to Bamboocane

yeah the word DeFreitaas we seem to have quite a few in the Eastern Caribbean region

In reply to 4REALQUICKS

the guys fighting glad to see the fighting spirit.

In reply to positiveg

They fell to a heavy defeat, losing by ten wickets as Emerging Ireland, set just 28 for victory, reached 30 without loss. However, as in the first match, the Academy did at least fight their way back into the game after another poor first innings display with the bat.

Even though the youngsters have taken quite a beating, I would like to draw attention to one factor. Look at the experience below, compared to the Academy side:


West Indies Academy XI

Ackeem Auguste 13 FC games
Kadeem Alleyne 8 FC games
Jewel Andrew 8 FC games
Teddy Bishop 15 FC games
Carlon Bowen-Tuckett 11 FC games
Jordan Johnson 8 FC games
Nyeem Young 11 FC games
Joshua Bishop 13 FC games
Johann Layne 11 FC games
Ramon Simmonds 7 FC games
Kelvin Pitman 5 FC games


Emerging Ireland XI

James McCollum 6 Tests, 27 FC games
Andy Balbirnie 8 Tests, 40 FC games
Curtis Campher 5 Tests, 8 FC games
Harry Tector 5 Tests, 18 FC games
Paul Stirling 6 Tests, 75 FC games
Lorcan Tucker 5 Tests, 21 FC games
Andy McBrine 7 Tests, 25 FC games
Fionn Hand 1 Test, 6 FC games
Liam McCarthy 3 FC games
Matthew Humphreys 1 Test, 4 FC games
Matthew Foster 8 FC games

All but just two of the home side have Test experience, with an average age of around 28, compared to the Academy XI average age of just 21. Only the touring captain Teddy Bishop has any experience at the highest level, a solitary ODI.

It is, quite literally, men against boys. CWI must be commended in arranging these tours / series as the opportunity of playing against better & older players with more experience will patently stand the young West Indians in good stead going forward. The experience of playing on such different surfaces to back home, will also be of future benefit.

In reply to 4REALQUICKS

Agree that it has been a good venture between both CWI and CI. Hopefully it can become a regular fixture.

Just to clarify about the gulf in experience between the teams, it was only in the second game that Ireland stacked their team with the experienced players. The first 4-dayer and the the 50 over games it was much more even in terms of experience. There were a few with full international experience (Doheny, Hand, Humphreys etc) but they wouldn't be regulars although in Humphreys' case that might change if he keeps playing like he did in this series.

There is a general problem with with players getting FC experience as CI have not staged a FC provincial competition since 2019.

P.S. Good luck against England next month!

Perhaps Ireland Select XI would have been a more appropriate name for the home side

For the Irish, it is nice to get a few wins but I think that especially in the second match, having already won the first, the decision to strengthen the team was a poor one. The Irish youngsters should have been given the chance to play against the tourists. Exposure to different conditions, players etc is far more beneficial than sitting on the side watching test players knock the ball around all day.

I look forward to seeing Ireland take on Zimbabwe in the Belfast Test next month, it should be a well fought game!


Here are the statistics for the West Indies Academy boys who took part in the red ball portion of the tour:

BATTING: (Qualification 50 runs)

Kadeem Alleyne 182 runs, avg 45, HS 93
Ackeem Auguste 180 runs, avg 45, HS 93
Nyeem Young 109 runs, avg 36, HS 48*
Teddy Bishop 90 runs, avg 22, HS 69
Joshua Bishop 75 runs, avg 18, HS 42
Carlon Bowen-Tuckett 58 runs, avg 14, HS 41
Jordan Johnson 51 runs, avg 12, HS 33


BOWLING: (Qualification 3 wickets)

Johann Layne 10wkts, avg 19, BB 5/39
Nyeem Young 6 wkts, avg 31, BB 3/75
Joshua Bishop 3 wkts, avg 60, BB 2/72

Defreitas from SouthAfrica