Cricket West Indies (CWI) has chosen 29 gamers to coach on the Excessive-Efficiency Camp at Coolidge Cricket Floor, in preparation for subsequent 12 months’s ICC Below-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka.
The group contains the duo of left-handed batter Jordan Johnson and right-arm quick bowler Isai Thorne, each of whom featured finally 12 months’s Below-19 World Cup staged within the Caribbean.
Johnson scored 69 runs from 4 appearances whereas Thorne grabbed 4 wickets from 4 outings.
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A 3rd participant, top-order batsman Justin Jaggessar, performed two Youth One-Day Internationals on the tour of England two years in the past, however didn’t end up within the World Cup.
The camp, which acquired underway Tuesday and runs till March 9, will give attention to “focused teaching periods and bodily preparations” and also will embrace three 50-over apply matches.
“This camp is all concerning the significance of the event of West Indies cricket and that is laying the muse for the way forward for our recreation within the area,” mentioned chief youth males’s selector, Robert Haynes.
“This isn’t nearly enjoying within the ICC Males’s U19 Cricket World Cup subsequent 12 months, but additionally about growing the general participant on and off the sector. “Now we have some very gifted gamers on this group, and we all know they’ll do very properly. We nonetheless have the age-group tournaments later this 12 months the place extra gamers can put in performances and earn choice.”
The number of gamers was primarily based on their performances throughout age group tournaments final 12 months and additional alternative will likely be supplied to impress selectors throughout CWI’s age group event later this 12 months.
In the meantime Rohan Nurse, the previous assistant coach of the West Indies Below-19s, has been appointed as the brand new Expertise Pathway Supervisor by CWI, and has been tasked with designing and spearheading the gamers preparation for the Below-19 World Cup.
CWI mentioned Nurse will “lead the day-to-day administration of the event squad as a part of his wider high-performance position managing our greatest younger expertise throughout the area.”
He will likely be joined in the course of the camp by assistant coaches Nikita Miller and Rohan Clarke; specialist wicketkeeping coach, Nick Wilton; excessive efficiency supervisor, Graeme West; coach improvement supervisor, Chris Brabazon together with Steve Liburd, the West Indies Ladies’s Below- 19 head coach.
SQUAD – Jacen Agard, Jewel Andrew, Brian Barnes, Solomon Bascombe, Golcharan Chulai, Mavindra Dindyal, Joshua Dorne, Tarrique Edward, Reon Edwards, Justin Jaggessar, Deshawn James, Orlando James, Jordan Johnson, Devonie Joseph, Jaden Lorde, Micah McKenzie, Joshua Morris, Stephan Pascal, Jatario Prescod, Andrew Rambaran, Rampertab Ramnauth, Tamarie Redwood, Nathan Sealy, Isai Thorne, Devin Tyson, Yanique Watley, Steven Wedderburn, Adrian Weir, Trevaun Williams.
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