West Indies U-19 124 for 5 (Francis 52, Andrew 44, Mwamele 2-17) beat Tanzania U-19 122 (Thakrar 26, Lawes 3-23, McKenzie 2-15, Belle 2-23) by five wickets<\/p>\n
West Indies<\/a> kickstarted their campaign at the 2026 Men’s U19 World Cup<\/a> with a drubbing of Tanzania<\/a> for the first result of the tournament in Windhoek<\/a>.<\/p>\n West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl, but had to wait till the 14th over for the first breakthrough. Tanzania openers Dylan Thakrar<\/a> (26) and Darpan Jobanputra<\/a> (19) put on a 53-run opening stand to frustrate West Indies’ new-ball bowlers before medium pacer Jonathan Van Lange broke the stand.<\/p>\n Seamer Shaquan Belle<\/a>, who took the catch to break the first-wicket stand, then dismissed Thakrar in the 15th over, ran No. 3 Ayaan Shariff out in the 16th, and got Augustino Mwamele in the 19th. The three wickets in three overs opened up Tanzania’s batting, and a procession of wickets followed. Left-arm wristspinner Vitel Lawes<\/a> ran through the lower-middle order for a three-wicket haul, and Tanzania folded for 122 in the 34th over.<\/p>\n In the chase, Tanzania’s seamer Mwamele got an early breakthrough to remove West Indies opener Zachary Carter in the fourth over. But an 80-run second-wicket partnership between Tanez Francis<\/a> (52) and Jewel Andrew<\/a> (44) eased the chase.<\/p>\n Although West Indies lost four wickets between the 17th and 20th overs for a brief stutter, the low target meant they eventually cruised to their first win in Group D with 29 overs to spare.<\/p>\n Zimbabwe U-19 vs Scotland U-19: Match abandoned<\/p>\n Zimbabwe<\/a>, the tournament co-hosts, and Scotland<\/a>, were left sharing a point each after no play was possible at the Takashinga Sports Club in Harare<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zimbabwe’s next Group C opponents are England (January 18), while Scotland next face Pakistan (January 19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Indies U-19 124 for 5 (Francis 52, Andrew 44, Mwamele 2-17) beat Tanzania U-19 122 (Thakrar 26,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[152],"class_list":{"0":"post-25201","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\/25201","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=25201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}