BECKENHAM, England, CMC – Alick Athanaze and Joshua Da Silva warmed up for larger depth battles within the coming weeks with unbeaten half-centuries that had been the highlights for West Indies earlier than the opening match on their Tour of England in opposition to the First-Class Counties Choose XI led to a draw on Friday.
Athanaze was not out on 66, and Da Silva was not out on 51 when West Indies declared their second innings on 196 for 5 on the rescheduled tea break on the rain-spoilt closing day of the Kent County Cricket Floor match.
The Counties Choose XI had been 30 for 2 of their second innings when stumps had been drawn within the match for the ultimate time after they had been set an inconceivable goal of 163 to win within the closing play session.
Uncapped pacer Jeremiah Louis changed injured Kemar Roach within the West Indies squad for the tour, then acquired opener Harry Singh caught behind for a 12-ball duck. Johann Layne, a Cricket West Indies Academy squad member returning to the Caribbean from their Tour of Eire, acquired Jamal Richards caught behind for six earlier than the 2 groups determined it was futile to proceed.
“Barring a little bit of opposed climate, we have now managed to get a variety of stable cricket performed over the past three days, so we’re usually pleased with what has occurred on the tour up to now,” West Indies assistant coach Jimmy Adams instructed CWI Media.
“What we might have wished to get from the time spent out within the center, we have now gotten. The climate has been form to us. We all know that it might get a bit tough [in England], however we’re delighted with what the climate has allowed, the services we have now been given, and what the blokes have been capable of produce.”
West Indies will now head to the British capital of London, the place they’ll proceed preparations for the primary Take a look at in opposition to hosts England. The match will begin on Wednesday at Lord’s, the so-called house of the game.
“I believe it will be important that they [the batsmen] get as a lot ‘reside’ apply as they will in situations that many are unfamiliar with,” Adams added.
“I might say that regardless of wherever they’ve traveled exterior of the Caribbean, a variety of them haven’t toured England earlier than – some have – however a variety of the batters haven’t, so [this tour match] was a possibility for them to get as acquainted with situations as attainable earlier than they run into the worldwide opposition, and I believe they’ve carried out it fairly effectively.”
Earlier, Athanaze and Da Silva shared 91 – unbroken – for the sixth wicket after no play earlier than lunch, with the guests set to proceed from their in a single day whole of 57 for 2.
Opener Mikyle Louis made 28 and was one in every of three wickets that the West Indies misplaced within the half-hour span when play began 2-1/2 hours later than scheduled due to opposed climate, they usually had been 105 for 5.
However Athanaze led the resistance for the Caribbean facet throughout two-and-a-half hours on the crease, when he struck 11 fours from 99 balls, and Da Silva struck half-dozen fours from 69 balls in an hour-and-a-half.
Athanaze reached his 50 from 62 balls when he clipped pacer Jamal Richards by means of backward sq. leg for a single.
Da Silva arrived on the landmark from 68 balls when he pulled off-spinner Farham Ahmed, youthful brother of England’s teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed, by means of mid-wicket for his closing boundary earlier than the declaration got here throughout the rescheduled tea break.
Adams stated the Caribbean facet can be seeking to construct on the information they gained from the tour match and draw on their expertise from this previous January, once they gained a Take a look at in Australia for the primary time in nearly three many years, to supply a aggressive entrance to England.
“It’s a superb group when it comes to their potential and willingness to study,” he stated. “A few of them went to Australia just a few months again and confirmed this capability to study in a short time, and I hope this continues.
“As a coach, you can’t ask for extra. They work exhausting, they study rapidly, and what we are able to do is to offer them a bit of heads up about what to anticipate each when it comes to situations and information concerning the opposition.”
Adams stated: “We wish to construct on it [the win in Australia]. I can’t converse to what’s occurring exterior the group or round, but it surely was an excellent fillip for us from a group perspective. Certainly, when you’ve got a younger group, you might be eager to mattress down many issues.
“A few of them are early of their careers, and outcomes like that may assist the educating course of as a result of they reinforce and transfer issues from principle to actuality. It then implies that, perhaps, as a substitute of getting to show, you may remind them as a result of they’ve been there and nothing is an alternative choice to having been in a battle and are available out on the opposite facet intact, so hopefully, we are able to add to that going ahead.”
The second Take a look at of the collection begins on July 18 at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, and the third Take a look at begins on July 26 at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
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