Under 19 Cricket Team Announced
The under 19 cricket squad has been selected to compete in the Pepsi ICC Americas Region U19 Division 1, to be held in Fort Lauderdale from February 6 – 13.
The tournament is a round robin format made up of teams from Argentina, Bermuda, Bahamas, Canada, USA and Cayman Islands. The top two teams in this tournament will qualify to compete in the ICC U19 World Cup Global Qualifier scheduled to take place in Ireland in July against eight other teams, four regions of which six will qualify for the 2012 ICC U19 World Cup.
Head Coach David Moore said: “It has been a very difficult process in paring the squad down to 17 and it will be even harder to get it down to 14. All the players in the squad have worked very hard and have shown their commitment to training, improvement and representing Bermuda. The selected squad augurs well for the future of elite cricket in Bermuda with a good mix of experience and enthusiasm.”
“There are already a number of athletes that have played National team cricket, including Joshua Gilbert, Christian Burgess, Kevon Fubler, Damali Bell and Kamau Leverock. Their experience, mixed with the up and coming younger players, will be very important if this team is to be successful in the Americas qualifiers and beyond to the World Group Qualifiers.”
“As we are in a strong region I expect that most teams in this tournament will be very close in natural ability, but as with most under age tournaments, it will be those teams and players that work hard and make the correct decisions at important times that will get through to the next stage.”
The team is as follows:
- Joshua Gilbert (Captain) (Somerset CC)
- Kamau Leverock (PHC)
- William White (Cleveland CCC)
- Kevon Fubler (Willow Cuts CC)
- Tre Manders (Western Stars)
- Greg Maybury (Somerset CC)
- Damali Bell (Cleveland CCC)
- Kamel Easton (Somerset CC)
- Christian Burgess (St. Georges CC)
- Lateef Trott (Bailey?s Bay CC)
- Mackih McGowan (Cleveland CCC)
- Jaloni Albouy (Southampton Rangers SC)
- Shaquille Jones (Somerset CC)
- Joshua Commissiong (Somerset CC)
- Kwasi James (Somerset CC)
- Sherwin Hall (Willow Cuts CC)
- Antonio Darrell (Willow Cuts CC)
The team will be narrowed down to fourteen with three standby players on Friday 21 January.
Honestly, how can we still regard cricket as our national sport? I think some re thinking needs to happen! No offense to any cricket fans out their because id like you all to know that i am therefore one myself. But i hate to say that the government is wasting large amounts of money on teams that are proving themselves worthless! Why not invest in sports such as sailing, swimming and football. There is so much talent on this island and its a shame to see it go to waste!