The West In­dies Un­der-19 crick­et team ar­rived in Bangladesh on Mon­day to face the Bangladesh U-19s in a sev­en-match one-day in­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries, and for­mer West In­dies U-19 man­ag­er Roland Sam­path hopes the Windies bats­men can find a for­mu­la to deal with the home team's spin bowl­ing at­tack.Bangladesh de­feat­ed West In­dies 4-3 in a sev­en-match ODI se­ries played in Guyana in Oc­to­ber. Both teams are us­ing these se­ries as prepa­ra­tion for the 2014 ICC U-19 Crick­et World Cup in Feb­ru­ary, host­ed by the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates. As a re­sult, the windies man­age­ment team ro­tat­ed the squad con­stant­ly through­out the Guyana leg, in an ef­fort to give every­one a chance to im­press. Sam­path, who was the team's man­ag­er in Guyana, said "We want­ed to see every­body, to give every­one an equal chance in a com­pet­i­tive en­vi­ron­ment."

Open­er Je­re­my Solozano was the most con­sis­tent bats­man in Guyana, av­er­ag­ing 36 in five in­nings, but the over­all bat­ting ef­fort was be­low par. "When we were in Guyana we strug­gled against the Bangladesh spin­ners," Sam­path re­marked. In the de­cid­ing match, af­ter the windies fought back to lev­el the se­ries 3-3, the bat­ting proved to be windies demise. Chas­ing 169 for vic­to­ry, the home team fell for a pal­try 101, hand­ing the vis­i­tors the se­ries vic­to­ry. Solozano stood tall, top-scor­ing with an un­beat­en 35, while cap­tain Ra­maal Lewis pitched in with 19.

Sam­path be­lieves, like the se­nior West In­dies team, the U-19 bats­men need to ap­ply them­selves and spend more time at the wick­et.The for­mer man­ag­er said the team showed po­ten­tial in oth­er ar­eas. "The field­ing was good and the bowl­ing was not bad at all. We had about six fast bowlers that look good for the fu­ture."Sam­path be­lieves the away se­ries, which bowls off on Sat­ur­day night Caribbean time, will be a chal­lenge, but is valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence for the young­sters. "It will be tough for us, but it will be good prepa­ra­tion for the World Cup."

Squad: Ra­maal Lewis (Ja­maica, cap­tain), Je­re­my Solozano (T&T, vice cap­tain), Fa­bi­en Allen (Ja­maica), Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul (Guyana), Bryan Charles (T&T), Tris­tan Cole­man (Ja­maica), Jonathan Drakes (Bar­ba­dos), Shim­ron Het­my­er (Guyana), Jerome Jones (Bar­ba­dos), Ray Jor­dan (Wind­wards), Bran­don King (Ja­maica), Pre­ston Mc­Sween (Wind­wards), Mar­quino Mind­ley (Ja­maica), Gu­dakesh Motie (Guyana), Nicholas Pooran (T&T)