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5th U-19 ODI set for Providence today – Windies aiming for a win to keep series alive
By Sean Devers
Young West Indies must beat Bangladesh tonight at the National Stadium at Providence in the fifth ODI Day/Night encounter if they hope to keep the seven-match under-19 series alive.
This afternoon’s game is scheduled to commence at 13:30hrs and a vastly improved performance is needed if the Caribbean teenagers are to turn things around after winning the opening match by six wickets.
With Bangladesh leading 3-1, West Indies need to win all of the remaining matches to take the series but the Asian spinners could again befuddle the batsmen if conditions in Guyana continue to favour the visitors and a faster track is not prepared at Providence.
Apart from the team’s most accomplished batsman, T&T’s left-hander Jeremy Solozano who had starts in every game, the West Indies batsmen have struggled badly against the turning ball.
Uddin Jashim, Mehedi Miraj, Jeremy Solozano
Jamaican Leroy Lugg benefitted from three chances to score 69 in the first match but managed 1, 16 and duck in the other matches while fellow opening batsman Tagenarine Chanderpaul laboured for 30 overs for 24 runs when the West Indies lost at Bourda.
Although he should be accustomed to the slow pitches here, Guyanese Shemron Hetymer prefers the ball coming onto the bat and struggled once pace was taken off the ball.
Tristan Coleman, Skipper Ramaal Lewis, Tarryck Gabriel, and Nicholas Pooran who returned to the region from the Champions League in India with second ball duck in his first match, all seemed at sea to the off-spin pair of 15 year-old Skipper Mehedi Miraj and Mossadek Saikat along with left-arm spinner Uzaman Nehad and leg-spinner Likhon Zubair.
The home team fell for their lowest total at this level (88) and slumped to their heaviest defeat in the third ODI of this series before catapulting to 51-7 in their next match before Gudakesh Motie-Kanahi and fast bowler Marquino Mindley, with 39 each gave the host brief hope.
Bangladesh Opener Sadman Anik fell five short of his ton at Providence, while wicket-keeper Uddin Jashim has scored three fifties on the tour so far and along with Saikat, Miraj and Nazmul Shanto have all looked confident against the West Indies slow bowlers.
Left-arm spinner Motie-Kanahi has looked the best of the home team spinners, while the six fast bowlers in the squad including the genuinely quick Vincentian Ray Jordon, have all found work hard on slow and low tracks here.
This series is being played as preparation for the 2013 under-19 World Cup set for Dubai and players in the 18-man West Indies squad are being rotated especially the pacers.
India are the defending World Cup champions having won the last event in Australia last year. The under-19 World Cup is played every two years since the event was held in South Africa in 1998, 10 years after the first was contested in Australia.
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