Confident Jamaica leave for Nortel tourney (7 Jul 1998)

7 July 1998

Confident Jamaica leave for Nortel tourney

The Jamaica Gleaner

A confident Jamaica team left the island yesterday for the Nortel West Indies Youth cricket tournament which gets under way in Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow.

Jamaica, playing in Group B, open their bid for the title tomorrow against defending champions Guyana. The other teams in the group are the Leeward Islands and a Nortel development team which has replaced Bermuda.

According to team manager Linden Wright, Jamaica boast a well balanced team and providing the players live up to expectations should do well. "I cannot predict who will win, but I am sure we will do well," said the former Jamaica representative.

The squad: Ricardo Powell - captain, Christopher Gayle, Marlon Samuels, Matthew Sinclair, Kevin peart, Wade Allen, Tamar Lambert, Sean Cousley, Jermaine Lawson, Barrington Bartley, Rayon Smith, Keith Hibbert, Bevan Brown, and Kamal Davis.

Source :: The Jamaica Gleaner (https://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/)