WI Rising Stars Seales and Young named in U-19 ICC Team of the Tournament
Two members of the West Indies team – fast bowler Jayden Seales and allrounder Nyeem Young have been named in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup Team of the Tournament.
The ICC made the announcement on Monday after the event ended on Sunday – with Bangladesh defeating India in the final to win their first title at this level.
Seales, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, was hailed as the best fast bowling talent in the tournament. The strongly-built 18-year-old consistently topped 90 miles per hour and ended with 10 wickets at an average of 18.30 runs per wicket.
Jayden Seales' fine Under 19 World Cup continued with four more wickets against Nigeria today!#U19CWC | #FutureStars pic.twitter.com/vVR3lXr7na
— Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup) January 23, 2020
Jayden Seales very impressive 140kmp liming what I’m seeing from this young West Indies team
— Rayad Emrit (@rayad51) January 20, 2020
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Young was equally impressive and starred with Player of the Match performances in the first round wins over Australia and England.
His 61 helped West Indies recover from 92/5 to claim a brilliant victory over Australia.
— ICC (@ICC) January 18, 2020
Nyeem Young is today's @oppo Shotmaker!#U19CWC pic.twitter.com/tYpwC2gEmj
The 19-year-old from Barbados ended with 140 runs – which included two half-centuries; as well as eight wickets with best figures of 5-45. He also held four catches.
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An adjudication panel of five selected both the team and player of the tournament, with commentators Ian Bishop, Rohan Gavaskar and Natalie Germanos joined by ESPN Cricinfo correspondent Sreshth Shah and ICC representative Mary Godbeer.
Team Of The Tournament (in batting order):
Yashasvi Jaiswal – India
Ibrahim Zadran – Afghanistan
Ravindu Rasantha – Sri Lanka
Mahmudul Hasan Joy – Bangladesh
Shahadat Hossain – Bangladesh
Nyeem Young – West Indies
Akbar Ali – Bangladesh (WK, Captain)
Shafiqullah Ghafari – Afghanistan
Ravi Bishnoi – India
Kartik Tyagi – India
Jayden Seales – West Indies
12th man: Akil Kumar – Canada