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  • 10 months ago
With the second edition of the ICC Women's Under-19 World Cup starting Friday at 10.30pm TT time, we will look at some things surrounding the tournament.

The focus is on two West Indian female umpires, including a Trini, who will be officiating, plus one South African and a Bangladeshi player to look out for.
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00:00Trinidad and Tobago's Candice Laborde is one of the umpires for the ICC Women's Under 19 T20 World
00:07Cup in Malaysia. Laborde was also a part of the match officials team for the first edition that
00:11took place in South Africa in 2023. Another West Indian also officiating in this edition is Maria
00:17Abbott who hails from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. South African keeper batter Karabo
00:22Meso is looking forward to guiding her younger teammates at the 2025 tournament. Now 17, Meso did
00:28play in the inaugural Under 19 Women's T20 World Cup at the age of 15. She has words of advice for
00:34the inexperienced players saying quote, I am going to help everyone who is in the same shoes I was in
00:40at their first World Cup. We won't be hard on them because it's their first and our second unquote.
00:46Sameer Akhtar has been named captain of Bangladesh. She also played in the 2023 edition
00:52which included a shock win against Australia in the group stage. Akhtar made 31 not out in that
00:58video. Now on YouTube's export.
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