The T&T Na­tion­al Un­der-15 team warmed up for the up­com­ing West In­dies Re­gion­al U-15 tour­na­ment with an very good per­for­mance against Cara­pichaima East Sec­ondary at UWI Spec yes­ter­day.

Caps bat­ting first were reel­ing on 73/7 when the rain came and af­ter a short show­er, they re­fused to con­tin­ue the match against the young­sters. Top scor­ing for Caps was Joel Bris­tol who made 19. Open­er Re­nal­do Leza­ma was bowled for 13 af­ter hit­ting two fours ear­ly in the in­nings. How­ev­er, he was the first to be dis­missed bowled by pac­er Liam Mam­chan and this opened the flood­gates. Fel­low pac­er Ri­car­do Chase was im­pres­sive in grab­bing three wick­ets for 24 runs.

Cen­tral Zone left-arm or­tho­dox spin­ner Ronill­ster Per­reira took two wick­ets for 25 runs. South off-spin­ner Aval­on Chan­g­oor was his nor­mal miser­ly self bowl­ing four overs three maid­ens one wick­et for one run. Na­tion­al play­er Nick­yle Jal­im who was used as a guest play­er for Caps weath­ered the storm set up by his team-mates on the na­tion­al team.

Man­ag­er of the team Nar­ine Bideshi said he has a well round­ed team and he is hop­ing for good things from them. Af­ter T&T fin­ished last in 2017, the T&T Crick­et Board de­cid­ed to change the team man­age­ment and now Bideshi and coach Ke­sha­va Ram­phal will be in charge.

He said, "The guys are re­al­ly gelling well. We've had some good ses­sions with them and they are com­ing along nice­ly. The coach is a young man who is do­ing well in his ca­reer and he has re­al­ly done well with this team. He is a bright boy and we are see­ing his good work.”

Bideshi, who served as man­ag­er of the T&T Un­der-21 team some years ago said, "The key for our play­ers will be how quick­ly the boys adapt to the con­di­tions on tour. The pitch­es in Ja­maica could be a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from what we have at home, but I think our boys will be fine.”

The na­tion­al team will con­tin­ue their prepa­ra­tions over the week­end be­fore fly­ing out to Ja­maica Mon­day morn­ing.