U-19 World Cup Warm-up: Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Scotland all recorded impressive victories as the warm-up matches for the 2022 ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup continued in the West Indies.
In Guyana, Sri Lanka notched a 128-run triumph over Ireland and Scotland were winners by 107 runs over Uganda, while the biggest win of the day came in St Kitts for UAE, as they were 250-run victors over Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s scheduled warm-up match against England was postponed due to delays in the Afghanistan squad obtaining the necessary visas to enter the West Indies.
U-19 World Cup Warm-up: The ICC U19 Men’s CWC starts on Friday, with all teams now entering the final stages of preparation.
Sri Lanka shine in shortened match
Despite overnight rain in Guyana shortening the match between Sri Lanka and Ireland to 43 overs per side, Shevon Daniel helped lead the Sri Lankans to an impressive 128-run victory.
Sri Lanka Under 19s beat Ireland by 128 runs | #U19WorldCup Warm-ups.
Sri Lanka 233-7, 43 ovs (Shevon Daniel 75 retired, R Somarathne 33; McGuire 2-40)
vs
Ireland 104, 31.4 ovs (J Cox 45*; W Sahan 3-5, C Wickramasinghe 2-7)READ: https://t.co/PTKUeUmA3W #SLU19 #YoungLions
— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC) January 11, 2022
Ireland won the toss and elected to bowl but opener Daniel attacked from the off as he scored 75 from 72 balls, including eight fours and a six.
U-19 World Cup Warm-up: Sri Lanka, UAE and Scotland warm up for U-19 WC with easy wins
Opening partner Chamidu Wickramasinghe being run out for five and No.3 Sakuna Liyanage being trapped LBW by pick of the Irish bowlers Nathan McGuire (2/40) couldn’t slow Daniel, who retired not out with the score at 122 for two.
The middle order picked up the slack from there as Sadisha Rajapaksa (22), Pawan Pathiraja (25) and Ranuda Somarathne (33) all had cameos to push the Sri Lanka total to 233 for seven from 43 overs – with three of the dismissals being run outs.
In response, the Ireland top order failed to build a foundation with Wickramasinghe clean bowling both opener Liam Doherty and captain Tim Tector to end with figures of two for seven from four overs before Wanuja Sahan (3/5) picked up the mantle to cheaply dismiss Philippus le Roux, Scott MacBeth and McGuire.
🏏 WARM-UP MATCH
Ireland U19s v Sri Lanka U19s
43 over match▪️ Sri Lanka U19s 233-7 (43 overs)
▪️ Ireland U19s 105 (31.4 overs)Sri Lanka won by 128 runs
➡️ Scorecard: https://t.co/cVlMf8Hut4#BackingGreen ☘️🏏 pic.twitter.com/jz0htRqNP6
— Cricket Ireland (@cricketireland) January 10, 2022
U-19 World Cup Warm-up: Sri Lanka, UAE and Scotland warm up for U-19 WC with easy wins
The UAE lay down a marker
United Arab Emirates (UAE) impressed with both bat and ball as they recorded a dominant 250-run victory over Papua New Guinea in Basseterre.
Having lost the toss and been asked to bat, UAE opener Kai Smith set about punishing that decision with a brilliant innings of 145 that came off just 139 balls.
Scotland impress to beat Uganda
Scotland may only have been a late replacement for New Zealand in the 2022 ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup but they signalled their intention to make some noise in West Indies with a 107-run warm-up win over Uganda.
U-19 World Cup Warm-up: Batting first, they posted a creditable total of 219 for nine from their 50 overs, with opener Charlie Tear steering the innings as he made 50.
In fact, Scotland received useful runs all the way down the order as Sam Elstone hit 29, Jack Jarvis contributed 33 before being run out and Charlie Peet added 26 late on.
The Ugandan bowlers did take wickets at regular intervals with Edwin Nuwagaba (3/29) and Juma Miyaji (2/30) doing most of the damage but the Scots still gave themselves a target to defend.
U-19 World Cup Warm-up: Sri Lanka, UAE and Scotland warm up for U-19 WC with easy wins
Uganda made a promising start with the bat, reaching 41 for none in the ninth over but would go on to lose all ten wickets for just 71 runs thereafter.
It was a run out that finally broke the opening partnership as Ronald Lutaaya departed for 17 before Oliver Davidson (3/14) dismissed three of the top five and another run out left them at 63 for five.
U-19 World Cup Warm-up: Scotland skipper Jamie Cairns went on to get himself a three-wicket haul for the concession of just 15 runs as Cyrus Kakuru (top scorer with 25), Pius Oloka (5) and Miyaji (2) all fell to the slow left-armer.
Nuwagaba was the last man out for five off the bowling of Lyle Robertson in a total of 112 as Uganda slipped to 107-run defeat in 31.2 overs.
U-19 World Cup Warm-up: Sri Lanka, UAE and Scotland warm up for U-19 WC with easy wins
