{"id":25449,"date":"2026-01-15T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:03:08","slug":"clinical-west-indies-top-tanzania-in-u-19-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25449\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical West Indies top Tanzania in U-19 World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Indies<\/a>\u00a0kickstarted their campaign at the\u00a02026 Men\u2019s Under-19 World Cup<\/a>\u00a0with a drubbing of\u00a0Tanzania<\/a>\u00a0for the first result of the tournament\u00a0in Windhoek<\/a>, Namibia.<\/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\u00a0Dylan Thakrar<\/a>\u00a0(26) and\u00a0Darpan Jobanputra<\/a>\u00a0(19) put on a 53-run opening stand to frustrate West Indies\u2019 new-ball bowlers before medium pacer Jonathan Van Lange broke the stand.<\/p>\n

Seamer\u00a0Shaquan Belle<\/a>, who took the catch to break the first-wicket stand, then dismissed Thakrar in the 15th over, ran number three Ayaan Shariff out in the 16th, and got Augustino Mwamele in the 19th.<\/p>\n

The three wickets in three overs opened up Tanzania\u2019s batting, and a procession of wickets followed.<\/p>\n

Left-arm wrist-spinner\u00a0Vitel Lawes<\/a>\u00a0ran 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\u2019s 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\u00a0Tanez Francis<\/a>\u00a0(52) and\u00a0Jewel Andrew<\/a>\u00a0(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

West Indies next play Afghanistan on January 18, followed by their final group game against South Africa on January 22. Both games will start at 03:30h.<\/p>\n

India survive scare to beat USA<\/p>\n

SUMMARY: India\u00a099-4 from 17.2 overs (Abhigyan Kundu 42*; Ritvik Appidi 2-24) beat\u00a0USA\u00a0107 (Nitish Sudini 36; Henil Patel 5-16) by six wickets (via DLS)<\/p>\n

Five-time champions\u00a0India<\/a>\u00a0began their campaign with a\u00a0six-wicket win<\/a>\u00a0(via DLS) over\u00a0United States of America<\/a>, but not without a brief scare.<\/p>\n

When right-arm quick\u00a0Henil Patel<\/a>\u2018s five-wicket haul skittled USA for 107, it looked like it would be an easy win for India. However, in a rain-affected chase, India lost three wickets- including those of captain Ayush Mhatre and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- inside the first six overs.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Abhigyan Kundu<\/a>, who hit a double-century in the Under-19 Asia Cup in the lead up to the World Cup, played an assured knock to seal the deal.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe and Scotland match abandoned<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe<\/a>, the tournament co-hosts, and\u00a0Scotland<\/a>, were left sharing a point each after no play was possible at the\u00a0Takashinga Sports Club in Harare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe\u2019s next Group C opponents are England (January 18), while Scotland next face Pakistan (January 19). (ESPNcricinfo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Indies\u00a0kickstarted their campaign at the\u00a02026 Men\u2019s Under-19 World Cup\u00a0with a drubbing of\u00a0Tanzania\u00a0for the first result of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[152],"class_list":{"0":"post-25449","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\/25449","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=25449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}