South Africa U-19 are favorites to win
South Africa U-19 will take on West Indies U-19 at Senwes Park, Potchefstroom in Match 2 of the 2024 Under-19 World Cup. This match gets underway at 09:45 local time on Friday 19th January, 2023.
The surface at Senwes Park, Potchefstroom will be quite dry so we expect some turn for the spinners. A par score will be in the region of 250-260.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds, and match prediction for South Africa vs West Indies, U19 World Cup 2024
Playing in their home tournament, South Africa U-19 have a great chance to win the title and we can expect them to be well supported across the competition. All-rounder, 19 year old Juan James, will be leading the team and is a match-winner with both bat and ball.
Opener Steve Stolk comes into this match in strong form and the right-handed 17 year old has already hit scores of 46, 69 and 40 in this format in 2024! The middle-order batters of Oliver Whitehead and Riley Norton are also two players to watch.
Bowling in home conditions, the opening bowling pair of Kwena Maphaka and Nqobani Mokoena will be a threat. Both will also bowl bad balls but we anticipate that they will pitch the ball up and encourage batters to take risks against them.
South Africa U-19 played in the tri-nation series earlier this month and reached the final.
Lhuan-dre Pretorius (wk), Steve Stolk, David Teeger, Juan James (c), Dewan Marais, Richard Seletswane, Oliver Whitehead, Riley Norton, Nqobani Mokoena, Kwena Maphaka, Sipho Potsane
After finishing in 11th place in their home U-19 World Cup two years ago, West Indies U-19s do not travel to South Africa with a huge amount of expectation. However, they are a proud cricketing side and captain Stephan Pascal will maintain high standards.
In their last completed warm-up game, Joshua Dorne was the most impressive with the bat as he compiled a patient 45 not out from 66 balls to take them to victory over New Zealand U-19s. However, they will need to show more attacking intent with the bat in this game.
As a bowling unit, there will be some tough selection decisions to be made by Pascal and the team management as six of their seven bowlers picked up at least one wicket in the warm-up victory over New Zealand U-19s. Tarrique Edwards went wicketless in that match but was also very economical.
West Indies U-19 have been playing good cricket in the warm-ups but the real test comes in this game.
Adrian Weir, Stephan Pascal (c) (wk), Joshua Dorne, Jordan Johnson, Steve Wedderburn, Jewel Andrew, Tarrique Edward, Reon Edwards, Deshawn James, Mavendra Dindyal, Nathan Sealy
West Indies U-19’s should come into this match without too much pressure on themselves and we expect the hosts to feel the eyes of the home support on them. However, player for player, South Africa U-19s are the stronger and we are backing them to win.
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