Saint Lucia’s Auguste Outstanding For Young West Indies

Earlier this year, he won the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with coach Daren Sammy and West Indies opener Johnson Charles, but former West Indies Under-19 captain Ackeem Auguste is making his next move, thriving at a development camp in India.  Aged 21, Auguste is among a septet of West Indies batters 25 or younger who are at the Super Kings academy in Chennai. West Indies Academy head coach Ramesh Subasinghe, West Indies Under-19 coach Rohan Nurse, and Super Kings academy coach Sriram Krishnamurthy are overseeing their progress. “It’s been good so far in Chennai, trying to adapt to new surfaces and incorporate into my game,” Auguste said. “I think for both black and red clay, you need to come up with a game plan and try to stick to it as much as possible. Naturally, I sweep, so it comes naturally to me here too. So, just deciding on which sweep I’d want to play – a paddle sweep, reverse sweep, or just a hard conventional sweep.” Auguste was the standout batter in a two-day match played on Tuesday and Wednesday, scoring a pair of eighties amid inhospitable humidity, but he was disappointed not to score a...