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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Nandu shines but Windies crumble in warm-up

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West Indies Under-19 opening batsman Matthew Nandu blocks a ball during the the second Youth ODI against South Africa Under-19s at Arnos Vale Cricket Ground in St Vincent yesterday. The Guyanese hit an unbeaten 42 to lead the Windies Under-19s to an eight-wicket victory and level the series at 1-1.

West Indies Under-19 opening batsman Matthew Nandu blocks a ball during the the second Youth ODI against South Africa Under-19s at Arnos Vale Cricket Ground in St Vincent yesterday. The Guyanese hit an unbeaten 42 to lead the Windies Under-19s to an eight-wicket victory and level the series at 1-1.

Courtesy CWI Media

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Open­er Matthew Nan­du’s half-cen­tu­ry was not enough as West In­dies Un­der-19s suf­fered a 108-run crush­ing at the hands of In­dia Un­der-19s in their first warm-up match of the ICC Un­der-19 World Cup.

In­dia piled up 278 for six off their 50 overs at the Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um on Sun­day be­hind half-cen­turies from Nis­hant Sind­hu (78 not out) and cap­tain Yash Dhull (52) but on­ly Nan­du with 52 off 101 de­liv­er­ies pro­vid­ed any re­sis­tance as the hosts fold­ed for a mea­gre 170 off 43 overs.

Nan­du, who count­ed five fours, put on 30 for the first wick­et with Shaqkere Par­ris (8) and an­oth­er 30 for the third wick­et with Jor­dan John­son (10) be­fore West In­dies Un­der-19s col­lapsed from 65 for two in the 18th over – los­ing their next sev­en wick­ets for 74 runs in a dra­mat­ic slide.

Num­ber 10 Jo­hann Layne, bet­ter known for his fast bowler, then counter-at­tacked, how­ev­er, smash­ing three fours and two six­es in 33 off 25 balls, which in­spired a 31-run last wick­et stand with Mcken­ny Clarke (five not out).

Off-spin­ners Man­av Parakh (3-34) and Kaushal Tambe (3-30) both snatched three wick­ets apiece while fast bowler Garv Anil Sang­wan (2-18) and left-arm spin­ner Aneesh­war Gau­tam (2-37) end­ed with two wick­ets each.

In­dia had ear­li­er re­cov­ered from a poor start when they slumped to 18 for two in the sev­enth over, to re­build through Dhull, who punched half-dozen fours and two six­es from 67 balls and Nis­hant, who faced 76 de­liv­er­ies and hit sev­en fours and three six­es.

Arad­hya Ya­dav pro­duced a cameo at num­ber five, smash­ing a four and five six­es off 40 balls.

West In­dies Un­der-19s face South Africa Un­der-19s in their fi­nal warm-up here Wednes­day.

SCORES

At Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, GUYANA: Sri Lan­ka beat Ire­land by 128 runs.

SRI LAN­KA UN­DER-19s 233 for sev­en off 43 overs (Shevon Daniel 75 ret., Ranu­da So­marathne 33; Nathan McGuire 2-40)

IRE­LAND UN­DER-19s 104 all out off 31.4 overs (Joshua Cox 45 not out; Wanu­ja Sa­han 3-5, Chamidu Wick­ra­mas­inghe 2-7)

At Cona­ree, ST KITTS: Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates beat Papua New Guinea by 250 runs.

UNIT­ED ARAB EMI­RATES UN­DER-19s 321 for five off 50 overs (Kai Smith 145, Dhruv Parashar 52, Pun­ya Mehra 41)

PAPUA NEW GUINEA UN­DER-19s 71 all out off 28 overs (Christo­pher Ki­la­p­at 27; Aayan Khan 3-10, Adi­hya Shet­ty 2-10, Ni­lansh Keswani 2-16)

At Ever­est Crick­et Club, GUYANA: Scot­land beat Ugan­da by 109 runs.

SCOT­LAND UN­DER-19s 219 for nine off 50 overs (Char­lie Tear 50, Jack Jarvis 33; Ed­win Nuwaga­ba 3-29, Ju­ma Miya­ji 2-30)

UGAN­DA UN­DER-19s 112 all out off 31.2 overs (Cyrus Kaku­ru 25; Oliv­er David­son 3-14, Jamie Cairns 3-15)

(CMC)


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