COOLIDGE, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies Academy captain Nyeem Younger hailed his facet for his or her success in sweeping their four-day, first-class collection in opposition to Rising Eire 2-0.
The CWI Academy wrapped up the collection success with a 432-run win within the second match inside three days on Monday on the Coolidge Cricket Floor, the place additionally they received the primary match by an innings and 134 runs.
“I’m thrilled, as a captain, to win this collection convincingly,” Younger advised CWI Media. “The boys have carried out excellently all through the collection, and there have been some wonderful particular person performances.
“Many guys put their arms up in numerous conditions which have led us to this collection, so I’m happy about how we went about it, and I’m wanting ahead to the (West Indies Championship) in February.”
Academy batsman struck 300 within the collection – left-hander Joshua Bishop, batting at eight, made 102 not out within the first match. Within the second match, Kevlon Anderson and Kevin Wickham adopted up with 125 and 105, respectively, not off.
Not one of the CWI Academy bowlers might take 5 wickets in an innings, however teenage pacer Isai Thorne bowled probably the most spectacular of the lot within the second innings of the primary match to finish with 4 for eight.
Younger stated it was a wonderful all-round effort from the squad and constructed on the group’s performances from the Headley-Weekes Tri-Collection earlier within the yr and the West Indies Super50 Cup.
“We performed some four-day video games earlier within the yr – the Headley-Weekes video games – and we had some KPIs (key efficiency indicators) for these video games by way of how we wished to go about our recreation and what was needed for us once we received ourselves into place, the way to win video games,” he stated.
“We took a lot of that into this collection, and lots of guys raised their arms. It was good to see batters scoring a whole bunch and folks taking part in some good elements all through the sport with contributions like 50s and a few good partnerships.
“We scored some good scores all through the video games and put in some excellent bowling performances to execute and bowl out Rising Eire.”
Younger stated he had seen huge enchancment from the gamers, and some had progressed to the senior West Indies group. It confirmed that “the boys are doing properly for themselves, and as soon as they proceed alongside this path, there can be a number of guys transferring into the senior group sooner or later.”
The 2 sides used the collection to achieve high-quality taking part in time and check themselves in opposition to one another.
The CWI Academy squad, which additionally received the previous one-day collection 2-1, was comprised primarily of the CWI high-performance program gamers with some first-class expertise and others who graduated from the under-19 stage with some distinction.
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