West Indies’ Kemar Roach plays a shot to score six runs during the Cricket World Cup match between New
Zealand and West Indies at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Saturday, June 22, 2019. Associated Press / Jon Super
By George Alleyne
Two of Barbados’ leading young athletes,
Jonathan Jones and Mario Burke, did not
disappoint by comfortably winning their
pet events at the 2019 Athletics Association
of Barbados National Championships last
weekend.
Competing at the island’s National
Stadium athletes met in a competition
to select the best athletes for the Lima
2019 Pan-Am Games starting in Peru
from July 24, both Jones and Burke eased
to victories breasting the tape just below
their best times this year, indicating they
are holding better performances for next
month’s athletic meeting of 41 nations.
Turning out for his local club, Elite
Distance, on Saturday Jones clocked
45.69 seconds in the 400 metres. Khamal
Cumberbatch of Extreme Velocity Track
Club trailed him in second at 46.55
seconds.
During the American National
Collegiate Athletic Association 2019
Outdoor Track and field Championships
that ended earlier this month, Jones a
University of Texas freshman, wiped out
Elvis Forde’s 1984 Barbados record of
45.32 seconds in the 400 metres in the
NCAA heats and posted a Barbados first
sub-45 seconds blast of 44.64 seconds for
fourth place in the final Saturday night.
Appearing for the Barbados High-
Performance Track Club, Burke ran a
wind-assisted 10.24 seconds in the 100-
metres and in the process breezed past
former two-time Olympian and the
island’s Pan American Games silver
medallist Ramon Gittens who clocked
10.36 seconds.
Caribbean L 50 ife, June 28–July 4, 2019 BQ
In the same NCAA Championships
weeks ago Burke, a University of Houston
senior, had run a time of 10.98 seconds
in the 100 metres heats and appeared set
to break the national record of Olympic
bronze medal winner, Obadele Thompson’s
9.87 seconds but fell short with a clocking
of 10.06 seconds for sixth place in the
Mario Burke (R) easing past closest
local rival Ramon Gittens (L).
Photo by George Alleyne
England
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been enough to take the West Indies
towards their first win of the tour.
However, the paid fell in the same
over-King picking out Wyatt on the
deep square leg boundary going for
one big shot too many before Nation
was run out by substitute fielder Fran
Wilson, as the visitors collapsed from
96-4 to 138-9.
The win extended England’s
unbeaten run in 14 games in all
formats, stretching back to the third
ODI against India in Mumbai on
February 28.
A shocking display of poor fielding
proved costly for the West Indies
Women as they leaked many runs to
Amoy Jones and Wyatt, who should
have been easily stumped when on
10, but Kycia Knight failed to collect
cleanly behind the stumps before
Chinelle Henry shelled the England
opener two overs later from 17 at
extra cover.
West Indies’ chase got of to a
miserable start with Haley Mathews
being out and Britney Cooper trapped
lbw by Ana Shrubsole for a first-ball
duck. Stafaine Taylor was run out
for 19.
Three overs later, Brunt bowled
Knight (7) and McLean (9) as the
Windies’ innings trailed off without
much of a fight from the lower
order.
England leads the three-match
Twenty20 series 1-0, after the first
match was washed out because of
rain.
last year’s decision by the CGF to
strip the original hosts Belfast of
the event because of the political
deadlock in Northern Ireland.
The first Commonwealth Youth
Games was held in Scotland in 2000,
with the event subsequently going to
Australia, India, Isle of Man, Samoa
and most recently the Bahamas in
2017.
“We are delighted to award Trinidad
and Tobago the opportunity to host
the 2021 Commonwealth Games,”
CGF President, Dame Louise Martin
said.
By Azad Ali
West Indies all-rounder Carlos
Braithwaite who slammed his
maiden ODI century in the ICC
World Cup in the loss to New Zealand
at Old Trafford, Manchester, England
last week blamed some poor shot
selection by most of the batsmen got
the regional team in a hole.
from the 49th over, bowled Matt Henry
— including three sixes — that left
them with just eight runs to get from
the last two overs.
Seamer Jimmy Neesham then
produced a superb penultimate over in
which Braithwaite scraped two runs
off the fourth delivery to reach three
figures.
But with six needed to win, Braithwaite
attempted to clear the ropes at long-on
instead, crushing West Indies’ hopes of
a much needed win and was caught on
the long-on boundary.
Opener Chris Gayle had earlier
smashed 87 off 84 balls but was dropped
three times and Hemron Hetmyer (54)
from 45 balls had put on 122 for the
third wicket to rescue West Indies from
20 for two, but fell in a devastating
period for West Indies in which five
wickets tumbled for 22 runs in the space
of 29 deliveries.
Hetmyer was bowled by Lockie
Ferguson, missing a slower ball and
captain Jason Holder fell to a first-ball
duck caught at the wicket off the very
next delivery.
And with West Indies playing five
specialist batsmen and Evin Lewis
injured, Gayle then needlessly holed out
in the deep off Colin de Grandhomme in
the 24th over.
Left-arm seamer Trent Boult (4-30)
and Ferguson (3-59) led the Black Caps
bowling attack.
Earlier, captain Kane Williamson had
played another splended knock of 148
as he held the New Zealand innings
together,
Sent in to bat New Zealand lost both
openers when the score was on 7. Martin
Guptill (0) and Colin Munro (7).
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WEST INDIES SUFFER MAJOR LOSS
Youth Games
Burke and Jones cruise
Poor shot choice