KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Dominica captured the U-15 Windward Island Cricket Tournament trophy in a nail-biting, one-wicket victory over St. Vincent & the Grenadines on Tuesday.
Chasing 151 for victory, the Dominicans, unbeaten in the tournament, wobbled to 105 for seven before steady batting from their lower order and a generous number of extras from the Vincentians carried them to their fifth straight victory.
The visitors continue to lead the standings with 10 points and have sewn the title, leaving the hosts to remain winless.
Dominica had never lost more than three wickets in any innings in the tournament, but they were jolted early, slipping to 12 for two.
Their captain Leic Charles got them moving in the right direction with 25, but his exit triggered a slide and the Dominicans were soon 65 for five.
Ndo Joseph scored 32 and Alick Athanaze made 26, putting on 38 for the sixth wicket, to ease the concerns of Dominica, but they were dismissed within three runs of each other, leaving the tail-enders to make a mad scramble for the remaining runs.
The Dominicans varied attack made early inroads into the Vincentian batting after putting the home team into batting.
For a period, Delorn Douglas with the top score of 46, Shane Roberts with 21 and Erwin Williams with 16 kept them at bay.
Douglas and Roberts shared a 38-run, fifth-wicket partnership to pull the Vinceys out of the early trouble, but following their departure, there was limited resistance from the rest of the batting, as they lost their last four wickets for three runs in four overs and were all out for 150 in 44.1 overs.
Daneal finished with 3-34 and brother Kerwin grabbed 3-20 from 10 overs with his off-spin.
well done Gamaliel you made our school proud DGS
Congrats LEIC CHARLES and NDO Joseph, Possie on fire.
Congrats youngsters… keep working hard.
Congratulations guys, you make us proud…..
big up Erwin Williams!!
For the most part I am proud of the boys. Great job youngSTARS. To my Portsmouth Secondary School students you’re fantstico and you know how we celebrate…see you very soon.
Ndo Joseph another Portsmouth youngSTAR we are proud of you as well.
Team U-15 Dominica we are champions. Congrats parents coaches schools sports teachers fans.
well done boys thanks to our coaches who sacrifice the hours with us at practice session we are reaping the benefits.bouquets is also due to the west indies grass root cricket program which saw us all through under 13,15,19 training sessions they did us well.congrats is also due to sir Thomas,sir casimir,sir james and sir clyde who have sacrifice there Saturdays to do the cricket clinics with us.thanks to the dominica cricket association and sir nanthan who believe good things can come out of us the young up coming men of dominica we can also do good things stop placing just the negative on us.As a young fifteen year old myself and playing under nineteen cricket and intermediate league cricket I am calling on the Dominican public to come out and show more support to us the young stars at our games to often all we see are the tress around the field where we are playing.well done fellars. good bowling maldiny boy the school yard concrete basketball court doing us good.thank you teacher teddy for allowing to hit your school roof with our balls. PSS WE ROLLING WITH.THANKS MS J.
Excellent play guys! Congratulations to you and also to your Manager and Coach. Great team effort.
congratulation is in order to the whole team, players, managememt and the families of the players. Job well done.
CONGRATULATION TEAM WORK.congrats to the coach TK and Fernix.To all the boys evryone played their part in winning not only bowlers and batmen but also our fielders,
Great job coming from the Sports Division,,,,, the NURSERY for sports in Dominica. The sports, officers, sports teachers …. you all have to be complimented. Especially Coach T K and manager and cricket development officer Fernix Thomas
Congrats boys, keep at it!
Way to go Alic…Asa…#PCSS PEEPS!!!…
Congratulations to the team, inclusive of coaching and management staff. You’ve done Dominica proud!
Well done, boys. Congratulations to all of you, especially my boy Ndo.
YEAH Congrats are in order for the team. WIBC watch out, in time to come most of your stars will be from not just windward islands but Dominica. Take note!
Congrats we supporting from around the glob
This is unfair to the rest of the players. what only batsmen that made the team? There were no bowler?
is not only that but those who field the ball we are suppose to be congratulating them too.
well this is something good for dominica! congrats boys! keep it up…
great great job repect all of them
they did very well, to the fielders you to did your part too congratulate all the boys good job
I think we shoud always give kudos to the people behind the scene like the Manager and Coach. Anywacongrats to the entire team.
I endorse that. The Manager and Coach played a significant part in counseling, training, coaching and providing them with encouragement. If they had lost the match, it would have reflected on them. Therefore, it is fitting and right that they should also be congratulated. How often we forget that. They, who are at the top, deserve to be congratulated. Congratulations to them.
Papa we are on a roll with our cricket. I love it! Congrats!!!
Congrats hope the Minister of SPORTS will meet the team at the airport after the Carifta.
Good jobs boys.
Well they deserve a motorcade!!!I hope that is in place for them.
Great Idea, it helps boost their spirits and helps encourage them to do even better. Sure they’d feel appreciated.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss!!! Great Great job guys keep it up!
Great!
well done cousin ATHANAZE YOU WILL DO WELL ALIC KEEP ON PRAYING AND WORKING HARD AT PRACTICES