Pleasure is constructing within the Scotland Males’s U19 squad, as they stand only one win away from reserving their spot on the 2024 Males’s Below 19s World Cup in Sri Lanka.
Victories over Jersey, the Netherlands and Norway have put the Saltires in pole place forward of the ultimate spherical of fixtures on Saturday, and success towards Italy would guarantee they win the Qualifier and attain subsequent yr’s event.
The character of worldwide cricket means these tournaments convey collectively sides which have little data of one another, and captain Owen Gould has been happy with what his staff have achieved up to now.
He stated: “The event up to now has been a really eye-opening expertise and we’re having fun with each second of it.
“It’s been fairly attention-grabbing to come back up towards new opposition who play completely different kinds; Jersey had just a few individuals who whack the ball a bit and the Netherlands had a very difficult bowling assault.
“It’s been good to check ourselves towards groups whenever you don’t actually know what to anticipate, and also you’re going into the video games with none pre-conceptions.
“We’ve needed to adapt fairly rapidly to what’s been put in entrance of us and we’ve accomplished that fairly effectively up to now; we’ll be hoping to do the identical once more on Saturday!”
While it has been a complete squad effort to report three consecutive victories, a variety of Scotland’s younger stars have shone brightest.
“We’ve been actually impressed with Jamie Dunk on the high of the order, he’s batted brilliantly, and it’s the identical with Alec Value, he’s been distinctive with bat and ball up to now.
“Mackenzie Jones has actually stood out as effectively, he’s bowled nice for us and been an amazing finisher for us with the bat.
“We’re having fun with it up to now and hope to safe a spot within the World Cup on Saturday.”
