da dobrowin： Barbados might not have won the West Indies Under-15 cricketchampionship, but the last week in Trinidad was not a total flop forthe local team
Haydn Gill19-Apr-2001Barbados might not have won the West Indies Under-15 cricketchampionship, but the last week in Trinidad was not a total flop forthe local team.It was a satisfactory experience, bearing in mind that most of theguys were on a learning curve, manager Clinton St Hill toldNATIONSPORT following the team’s return home yesterday.We had four or so guys who played last year and, having won threegames and lost two, I would say it was a satisfactory performance.Following an impressive start to the competition with a ten-wicketvictory, Barbados finished the six-team competition in third place andSt Hill said it was a position which reflected the quality of theircricket.The two teams which came higher than us were the two teams thatdefeated us Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, he said.Both won the games primarily because we just didn’t handle their slowbowling. We struggled against it and that was our demise.St Hill, a member of the Barbados Cricket Association’s board ofmanagement, made mention of the individual performances of allrounder Barrington Yearwood, captain Renaldo Parris, fellow openerNicholas Squires and first-timer Shamarh Brooks.Against the background that West Indies won the Under-15 WorldChallenge last year, St Hill said there were a few good players onshow, but the Barbados manager also highlighted two negatives.Unfortunately, there is no tour for these players, and also there wereno selectors there to pick an All-Star XI to highlight the goodplayers, St Hill said.That was regrettable. Even if no tour is on, they should have at leastpicked a team and have the guys in a camp, maybe during the summer.You can’t just afford to let them die at this stage.