Barbados Defeats Guyana by Nine Wickets in 2024 West Indies Rising Stars U19 Championships

Barbados bowlers dismissed Guyana for 58 runs to win by nine wickets in a top of the table clash of the 2024 West Indies Rising Stars U19 50 over Championships at Arnos Vale, Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Kyron King, Nathan Sealy and Zishan Motara picked up three wickets each as the Barbados bowling unit came out with a vengeance against a Guyana team that scored 200 runs in the previous two games.

Captain Sealy won the toss and decided to take first bowl at the Guyanese batters. Playing their three pace attack for the first time in the 50 over tournament, the fast bowlers, King, Raneico Smith and Jatario Prescod, bowled with consistent line and lengths to contain the run rate of the batters.

After the first power play of 10 overs, Guyana were moving slowly along at 21/1 with King taking the lone wicket.

Prescod struck in the 16th over as he removed Guyana’s top scorer Rampertab Ramnauth for 15 while in the 17th over Motara bowled captain Mavendra Dindyal for 11 taking the score to 44/3. Sealy claimed his first scalp at 48/4 when Shahid Viera was out caught in the slips.

Wickets five and six fell with the score at 54 when Motara got Jonathan Van Lange, followed by Sealy removing Sachin Balgobin, both batters for four runs.

With the score on 57 two more wickets were taken when Motara and Sealy got Riyad Latiff (zero) and Thaddeus Lovell (three) respectively.

The team was then bowled out when the final two wickets were lost on 58, Krsna Singh and Golcharran Chulai both dismissed by King for zero.

King finished with figures of 3/7 in 6.4 overs, captain Sealy took 3/6 in seven overs while leg spinner Motara took 3/13 in his 10 overs.

Barbados batters came out with intent to finish the game as fast as possible, although they lost opener Kyle Jordan for eight in the second over, Zion Brathwaite and Joshua Morris finished the game in 7.5 overs. Brathwaite made 28 in 23 balls while Morris scored 23 in 18 balls.

Barbados lead the points table after the fourth round of games as they will take on Leeward Islands in their final contest on Tuesday with all sights set on lifting the title for the 50 over competition. (ZM)

In other scores:

Leeward Islands 208/9

Jamaica 189

Leewards win by 19 runs