Naz Ya­coob

Four T&T play­ers are among the top 15 who have scored the most runs in the just con­clud­ed TCL Group West In­dies Un­der-19 Chal­lenge three-day com­pe­ti­tion. Among the four is top all­rounder Yan­nic Cari­ah who fin­ished in third place among the lead­ing run-get­ters. The left-hand­ed Cari­ah tal­lied 347 runs and scored one cen­tu­ry and two fifties.

Evin Lewis of Princes Town Se­nior Com­pre­hen­sive and Pow­er­Gen Sports was fourth scor­ing one hun­dred and two half-cen­turies. Al­so in the top 15 fray were open­ing bats­man Nicholas Alex­is and skip­per Yan­nick Ot­t­ley of Cli­co Preysal Sports. Alex­is scored 230 runs, while skip­per Ot­t­ley notched 228. Three T&T bowlers were among the top 10 wick­et­tak­ers. Head­ing the lo­cal team in the top 15 among the bowlers was Cari­ah who bagged 27 wick­ets to fin­ish third to Patrick Har­ty of Ja­maica who picked up 30 scalps.

T&T's 16-year-old pint-sized leg-spin­ner Kissoon­dath Ma­gram grabbed 19 wick­ets to place among the bowlers, while left-arm spin­ner Javed Boodram was tenth with 14 vic­tims. Chair­man of the West In­dies se­nior se­lec­tion pan­el, Clyde Butts is ex­pect­ed in the is­land to­day. Butts will team up with the oth­er re­gion­al se­lec­tors, Raph­ick Ju­madeen, Robert Haynes and Ne­hemi­ah Per­ry to fi­nalise a 20-mem­ber squad in prepa­ra­tion for the ICC 2010 Youth World Cup in Jan­u­ary-Feb­ru­ary.