weekend with two age groups -- under 13 and under 16 -- playing this evening and tomorrow morning.

As with the former Shell Youth League, teams will be representing parishes, with St. George's and St. David's each having a side and Warwick and Paget combined as one outfit.

Some of the top players currently playing in the senior league, including Clay Smith, Albert Steede, Dean Minors, Jason Lewis, Dwayne Leverock, Lionel Cann, Del Hollis, Clarkie Trott, Cleon Scotland and Janeiro Tucker, are products of the former Shell league in the 1980s.

But with the conveyor belt inactive in the last few years, the young talent has not been filtering through to the senior league, something which Bermuda Cricket Board of Control plan to rectify.

They have now organised two youth divisions to be known as the Shell Under-13 league and the BF&M Under-16 league.

"We've got to get going, that's the main thing,'' chairman of the Youth Development Committee, Randy Horton said this week.

"Once we get going, it's going to be quite good. The managers are enthusiastic and the kids will get a lot out of it. We've got a lot of support so we think things will iron themselves out.'' The under-13s will play 20-over matches with games starting at 5.30 p.m. while the under-16s will play 40-over matches beginning at 10.00 on Saturday mornings. Each league will consist of eight rounds of matches, with All-Star games to follow.

Today's games will see St. David's playing Sandys at Saltus Field, Southampton meeting St. George's at Southampton Oval, Hamilton Parish playing Warwick at Warwick Sec. and Pembroke taking on Smith's at Harris Bay field.

The same teams match up in the Under 16 league tomorrow at St. David's, Southampton Oval, Shelly Bay and Warwick Sec. fields.