{"id":22287,"date":"2026-01-14T06:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22287\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:43:06","slug":"tanzania-win-nail-biter-apple-slams-ton-for-west-indies-as-warm-ups-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22287\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania win nail-biter, Apple slams ton for West Indies as warm-ups continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/images\/2026\/01\/Apple-ton-copy.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t <\/a>Guyana and West Indies<br \/>\nbatsman Shamar Apple celebrates getting to a century. (ICC)<\/p>\n<p>ICC U19 Men\u2019s World Cup<\/p>\n<p>Preparations for the ICC Under-19s Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup continued with West Indies, Pakistan and Tanzania all winning their warm-up matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bTanzania clinched a nail-biting encounter with Ireland by one wicket, recovering from 21 for six to chase 198, while the West Indies were victorious over Japan by 229 runs.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bPakistan eased past the USA by 69 runs, while Bangladesh\u2019s match with Scotland was eventually abandoned because of rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bTanzania fight back to defeat Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania elected to field first and their decision paid dividends as they dismissed Ireland for 197, Khalidy Juma leading the way with five for 35.<\/p>\n<p>Discipline with the ball repeatedly stopped Ireland from building partnerships, despite defiant knocks from Adam Leckey (38) and Freddie Ogilby (36).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2026\/01\/14\/sports\/ug-gff-sign-mou-to-drive-youth-empowerment-professional-pathways-in-football\/\" rel=\"prev nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlock 1 week of unlimited access for just $5, or pick our top plan for only 30\u00a2 a day! Enjoy fewer ads, full ePaper access, and our iOS &amp; Android apps as a subscriber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guyana and West Indies batsman Shamar Apple celebrates getting to a century. (ICC) ICC U19 Men\u2019s World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[152],"class_list":{"0":"post-22287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-tanzania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}