West Indies aiming to extend unbeaten run in today’s quarter-final match

ICC U-19 World Cup tournament in South Africa…

West Indies and New Zealand are scheduled to lock horns today from 4:00h in their quarter-final match-up of the ICC U-19 World Cup tournament at Willowmoore Park in Benoni, South Africa.

The West Indies Under-19 team have played undefeated in their group, and proceed to the quarter-finals after wins against England, Australia, and most recently Nigeria; but they have had a lengthy lay off.
The young Windies players have so far impressed in their campaign, showing great skill and maturity, as well as demonstrating raw talent and brutal power. Quick bowler Jayden Seales and seaming all-rounder Nyeem Young have particularly impressed with the ball during the tournament, having taken eight and six wickets respectively.

Seales has bowled with excellent pace throughout the tournament, often reaching the late 130s on the speed gun. His blinding speed has often been far too much for the young batsman to handle, and has drawn the highest percentage of false shots from seamers bowling a minimum of 100 balls in the competition.
The West Indies have also scored heavily with the bat, totalling 649 runs from their three matches, the most of any team to complete their three allotted group games so far. They score just below 31 runs per wicket, the third highest average in the tournament, currently behind India and Afghanistan.
Out of the eleven players to have scored 100 runs or more in this tournament, three are West Indian: Captain Kimani Melius, Kevlon Anderson and Nyeem Young, while the latter is currently the West Indies leading run scorer in the tournament with 129 runs at a strike rate of 110.25. Anderson is one run behind.
The West Indies are the only team to have more than one batsman score over 100 runs in the tournament.

The West Indies innings of the tournament so far goes to Anderson, for his unbeaten knock of 86 against England in Kimberley. Anderson showed a clear affinity for scoring in front of square on the legside, making 60.3% of his runs through this zone.

He favoured attacking the quicker bowlers, scoring 56 runs from the 56 pace deliveries he faced, and was deadly when the England seamers missed their yorkers, scoring 20 runs from the 8 deliveries he faced that were slightly short or full of their intended target. His was an innings that showed excellent maturity and control, with only 14.8% false shots played.
After sealing an unbeaten group stage with a mammoth 246-run win over Kenya, which was the twelfth biggest defeat in U19 World Cup history, the Windies will be extremely confident going into the knockout stages of the competition, where they will face a tough test against New Zealand.