Jamaica select 14 for Nortel tournament

The Jamaica Gleaner

17 July 1997


JAMAICA and Melbourne all-rounder Marlon Samuels and last year's vice-captain Carl Wright were named in a 14-man Under-19 youth squad to represent Jamaica at the Nortel West Indies youth cricket tournament in Guyana next month.

The squad was announced by secretary of the Youth Selection Committee Gladstone Neill at the end of the third and final trial game at Kensington Park yesterday which featured Carl Wright's XI versus Orlando Baker's XI.

An all-round performance from Samuels, who top scored with 94 for Baker's XI and returned to capture four wickets for 17 runs, along with Tamar Lambert's 62 and Wright's 41 for Wright's XI, highlighted the final day of the Capital and Credit Merchant Bank/Burger King trial match which Wright's XI won comfortably.

Scores: Baker's XI 200 (Christopher Gayle 58, Andrew Gayle 55) and 221 (Samuels 94); Wright's XI 265 for eight declared (Wright 81) and 198 (Lambert 62, Wright 41).

The Jamaica youth team will be managed by former national representative Lynden Wright and coached by Junior Bennett.

Full squad: Carl Wright, Orlando Baker, Marlon Samuels, Christopher Gayle, Tamar Lambert, Ricardo Powell, Llewelyn Meggs, Ryan Cunningham, Kevin Peart, Wade Allen, Keithroy Whilby, Kavon Gillespie, Dwight Mais and Matthew Sinclair.

Anshuman Kentish, Nicholas Austin, Bevan Brown and Keith Hibbert have been named as reserves.

Meanwhile, the Cayman Islands Under-15 team fell to Wolmer's at Emmet Park in a friendly encounter yesterday.

The Caymans were dismissed for 76 and Wolmer's responded with 77-6. The visitors will meet Padmore All-Age school at Melbourne Oval today as part of their Jamaica tour.


Source: The Jamaica Gleaner

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