If Bermuda Under-19 are to qualify for the World Cup in Bangladesh next year then it will fall to the likes of Alex Dore and Delray Rawlins to get them there.

The two most experienced players in the side, Rawlins will captain the team in the regional qualifiers in Bermuda next month, while Dore, the Southampton Rangers batsman, will be expected to score the majority of his team’s runs.

Bermuda’s task is no easy one, the team that finishes top will automatically qualify for the 2016 tournament, and to get there the under-19 side will need to beat Canada, United States and Suriname.

A weakened side has been playing in the Logic First Division this season, but have struggled so far and have won once, passing 200 runs on just one occasion.

The majority of those matches, however, have been played without the likes of Rawlins, Dore and Jordan Smith, another member of the squad who is also based overseas, in the team.

Dore did return last weekend, scoring 85 against Devonshire Recreation Club, and is in confident mood ahead of the tournament that on July 5, with games at St David’s and Somerset.

“I feel this is our time, we’re [at] home, it gives us an opportunity to be even stronger because we have the pride of Bermuda to back us,” Dore said. “And, we know the grounds that we are playing at, I know how to play on those wickets, I’ve scored 50 on both of those wickets, so I know how they play.”

It helps Dore’s confidence that he has already played an integral part in winning two competitions this season with Southampton Rangers.

In the Belco Cup his patient 64 not out led Rangers to victory and earned him the man of the match award, while his quickfire 40 helped his side to an eight-wicket win over Willow Cuts in the Twenty20 final.

Dore hopes that confidence trickles down into the players around him.

“I have to be the senior batsman in the team, and try and score the runs for the team,” Dore said. “These guys look to me, and so you want to be that confident person so everybody else feels confident themselves.”

The batsman is quick to credit his club coach, Ricky Brangman, and team-mates Janeiro Tucker and Dion Stovell with helping him improve as a player. Lessons he plans on putting to good use in the qualifiers.

“It [being at Rangers] has made me a better cricketer all around, it made me want to be a champion,” he said. “I’ve won trophies with Rangers, I’ve helped Rangers win two this season, and that’s just helped me be a better cricketer, a more mature cricketer.

“Every game I’m trying to learn, I see how their field placings are, I talk to my coach, Ricky Brangman, about the game, about scoring in tough situations.”

Stovell and Tucker have both had plenty of international experience and Dore has not been shy about picking their brains in the build up to his team’s opening game against United States.

“One thing Dion, especially, tells me, is never get bored,” Dore said. “Janeiro tells me to always calculate an innings. If you are scoring 150, or 300, he always tells me to work out how many balls I have, to how many runs I need per over.”