Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph and right-hand­ed bats­man Shamar Springer fin­ished fifth in the bowl­ing and bat­ting charts re­spec­tive­ly af­ter lead­ing the West In­dies to its first ever In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil Un­der-19 World Cup ti­tle in Bangladesh, on Sun­day.

The young Windies led by Guyanese Shim­ron Het­my­er, de­feat­ed pow­er­house In­dia by five wick­ets in the fi­nal at the Shere Bangla Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in a low scor­ing en­counter. In­dia was dis­missed for 145 in 45.1 overs af­ter Joseph grabbed 3/39 in ten overs, while medi­um pac­er Ryan John snatched 3/38 in ten overs.

West In­dies was made to work for the suc­cess­ful run chase af­ter be­ing re­duced to 77/5 af­ter 29 overs. How­ev­er, an un­beat­en 69-run sixth wick­et part­ner­ship be­tween Kea­cy Car­ty and Keemo Paul guid­ed the West In­dies to 146/5 in 49.3 overs. Car­ty end­ed on 52, while Paul con­tributed 40.

Joseph tor­ment­ed the op­pos­ing bowlers through­out the tour­na­ment, fin­ish­ing with 13 wick­ets at an im­pres­sive econ­o­my rate of 3.31 runs per over. Joseph's best bowl­ing fig­ures came against Zim­bab­we in the last match of the group stage when he took 4/30 in ten overs. The An­tiguan fast bowler, who has five first class match­es un­der his belt, has been tar­get­ed as a fu­ture star of West In­dies crick­et.

Springer, who was known for his 'chest roll' cel­e­bra­tions af­ter tak­ing a wick­et, scored 285 runs at an av­er­age of 57. The Bar­ba­di­an con­tributed valu­able runs in the mid­dle of the or­der in­clud­ing a knock of 106 off 78 balls against Fi­ji in the group stage. He struck one cen­tu­ry and two fifties dur­ing the tour­na­ment. Springer al­so con­tributed with the ball, snatch­ing sev­en wick­ets with his medi­um pace.

West In­dies wick­et­keep­er Tevin Im­lach (Guyana) had a fruit­ful tour­na­ment be­hind the stumps, fin­ish­ing with ten dis­missals (eight catch­es, two stump­ings) to fin­ish fifth among the wick­et­keep­ers in the tour­na­ment.

Springer and T&T left-hand­ed bats­man Jyd Goolie had a mem­o­rable part­ner­ship against Fi­ji. The duo had a fifth wick­et part­ner­ship of 157 runs, the fifth high­est of the tour­na­ment. Goolie struck 66 off 75 balls dur­ing the part­ner­ship, while Springer went on to post 106 off 78 balls af­ter Goolie was dis­missed. It was the high­est fifth wick­et part­ner­ship of the World Cup.

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