West Indies U19 coach confident ahead of Pakistan tour

Roddy Estwick, the West Indies Under-19 coach, has said his team are looking forward to their short tour of Pakistan, which starts tomorrow with a one-day match at Karachi. The trip acts as preparation for the squad ahead of the World Cup, in Sri Lanka next month.

"We have got good team spirit and good ethics and five one-dayers against the Pakistan Under-19 side would provide us with good preparations for the World Cup," he told Pakistan newspaper the Daily Times.

Estwick said his team was picked on the basis of the player's performances in the inter-island U-19 competition, adding that they had some talented players in their line-up. Commenting on the decline of the West Indies senior team, he maintained that "all the teams of the world go through this kind of periods."

West Indies squad Leon Johnson (capt), Jason Mohammed, Richard Ramdeen, Gajanand Singh, Andre Fletcher, Nelon Pascal, Kemar Roach, Javon Searles, Sharmarh Brooks, Andre McCarthy, William Perkins, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Richie Bachan.