National U-19 team flies out today
published: Sunday | August 6, 2006

Trenchfield

Jamaica's Under-19 team will depart the island today for the 2006 TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Cricket Challenge, which bowls off on August 8 in Guyana.

The tournament, which runs until August 30, will follow a three-day format consisting of five rounds of matches.

Six teams - Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Trinidad & Tobago and Windward Islands - will play each other for points in the round-robin competition.

The two teams with the most points after this stage will face off in a three-day final starting August 28 at the historic Bourda ground. The Jamie Trenchfield-led Jamaican team will open against defending champions Trinidad & Tobago at Bourda Oval.

In other opening round games, Barbados - the runners-up for the last two years - will face Windward Islands at Police, and Guyana will meet Leeward Islands at Everest.

Jamaica will face Leeward Islands at Wales (August 12-14); Barbados at Everest (August 16-18); Guyana at Enmore (August 20-22) and Windward Islands at Everest (August 24-26).

The final is set for August 28-30 at Bourda.

Jamaica squad: - Andre Creary (Holmwood/St. Mary), Robert Weir (Titchfield/St. Mary), Shacoya Thomas (Eltham), Jamie Trenchfield (KC/Kingston), Marlon Johnson (Holmwood/St. Ann), Sheldon Powell (Mile Gully/Manchester), Rasheed Outar (St. Catherine High/Kensington), Zeniffe Fowler (Westmoreland Cricket Association), Cordel Simpson (William Knibb /Trelawny), Marcel Parchment (Kemps Hill/Clarendon), Christopher Watson (Cambridge/St. James Cricket Association), AndrLindsay (Garvey Maceo/Clarendon), AndrRussell (Clarendon College/St. Catherine); and Jason Dawson St. Elizabeth Technical/Westmoreland).