BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE West Indies Regional Under-19 Cricket Tournament will be played in the Federation and keenly contested games are expected.
That was the announcement made by the Director of Sports, Anthony Wiltshire, during an interview with SKNVibes in which he explained that they are in the process of getting venues in the proper state to stage the games.
The tournament, which bowls off on July 24, will be played at four venues around St. Kitts – St. Paul’s, Molineaux, Verchild’s and Conaree – while the Sandy Point and Newton Ground facilities will be used as warm-up locations.
“We are presently in the process of getting the venues up to the required standards so that everybody would be pleased at what the environment and the conditions that they would meet when it kicks off on the 24th of this month.”
According to Wiltshire, the tournament is expected to run for about one month with a break for the staging of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in St. Kitts in August.
Following that break, two rounds of matches are expected to be played before the champions are crowned.
“Because we host four CPL matches from the 18th of August, and CPL should be completed by the 22nd or 23rd, there would be two matches coming up after that,” Wiltshire said.
The tournament will be seeing the likes of the Leeward Islands, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and the Windward Islands.
The Warner Park Cricket Stadium is not expected to stage any match, as that venue will be preparing for the CPL matches.
