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Monday, June 30, 2025

West Indies under 16 saved by rain.

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The West In­dies Un­der 16 in­vi­ta­tion­al team, was saved by rain in both their fi­nal match­es of the Aus­tralian tour. In the fi­nal match of the se­ries against the Aus­tralian Na­tion­al Un­der 16, the game was arranged un­der the new ICC ex­per­i­men­tal rules, where both teams bat 20 overs each and then play a sec­ond in­nings of 25 overs each to de­ter­mine a re­sult. Bat­ting first, Aus­tralia scored 89 for the loss of two wick­ets in their 20 overs. In re­ply the West In­dies reached 70 for one wick­et in their 20 overs, giv­ing a lead of 19 to the Aussies. When the Aus­tralian in­nings re­sumed Ben Mc Der­mott, son of for­mer Aus­tralian fast bowler Craig Mc Der­mott, took con­trol and took his per­son­al score to 150 in­clud­ing sev­en six­es and 18 fours. In the process the Aus­tralians reached a to­tal of 297 for five, giv­ing the Windies Un­der 16's a tar­get of 227 in 25 overs.

On­ly Jo­van Ali looked the part, he took three wick­ets to take his tour tal­ly to nine. Just be­fore the start of the West In­dies in­nings a heavy af­ter­noon show­er en­gulfed the Al­bert Oval leav­ing the um­pires with no op­tion but to call off the game. At the close of se­ries awards, Ben Mc Der­mott was named play­er of the se­ries, while Jo­van Ali was named best play­er for the Windies. Cap­tain Vikash Mo­han was named most promis­ing play­er while he was al­so sin­gled out as the play­er with the best at­ti­tude of both teams. Bri­an Christ­mas was al­so sin­gled out as an emerg­ing play­er by the all Aus­tralian pan­el which ad­ju­di­cat­ed the tour. On Fri­day, The Windies played their fi­nal game against the Papua New Guinea De­vel­op­ment Team, an Un­der 21 side now on a de­vel­op­ment stint in Aus­tralia.

The West In­dies bat­ted first and scored a mea­gre 88 in their 20 overs, while in re­ply the Papua New Guineans' re­spond­ed with 70/1 in sev­en overs be­fore the rains came again to re­lieve the windies of an­oth­er em­bar­rass­ment. The West In­dies coach Keeth Arthur­ton speak­ing af­ter the se­ries in­di­cat­ed there are about five play­ers on the trip who have shown re­al po­ten­tial to go all the way, but says the oth­ers may have peaked al­ready. Arthur­ton how­ev­er says all the boys should have ben­e­fit­ted im­mense­ly from the trip and should be able to of­fer re­al help to their clubs and schools. Arthur­ton said, it is not our bat­ting or bowl­ing abil­i­ty that wor­ries him, it is our gen­er­al out­crick­et and short at­ten­tion span.


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