ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A few of the area’s most promising feminine cricketers not too long ago benefited from a Ladies’s Academy Excessive-Efficiency Abilities Camp to hone and develop their abilities.
The camp, hosted by Cricket West Indies (CWI), ran from March 18 to 27 on the Coolidge Cricket Floor in Antigua. Franchise-contracted gamers labored alongside an skilled teaching workforce led by West Indies Ladies’s head coach Shane Deitz.
The initiative introduced collectively 12 CWI Academy-contracted gamers and three franchise-contracted gamers: Earnisha Fontaine (Dominica), Nerissa Crafton (Saint Lucia), and Sheneta Grimmond (Guyana).
Moreover, eight CWI pathway coaches from throughout the area participated within the camp, together with Sam Kirnon, a coach from Dominica, who the Windward Islands Cricket Board specifically nominated to attend.
CWI’s director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe, hailed the initiative, describing it as a “essential funding.”
“This Ladies’s Academy Excessive-Efficiency Camp focuses on alignment. It represents a vital funding in the way forward for West Indies cricket by uniting our most promising expertise and regional coaches with the ladies’s head coach, establishing a cohesive strategy to participant improvement that aligns with the senior workforce model,” Bascombe stated.
“The technical abilities these younger ladies will develop listed here are important, however the skill of our regional coaches to help our ladies gamers of their territories is equally worthwhile.
“Our imaginative and prescient is to construct a sustainable pathway that persistently produces world-class cricketers able to competing on the highest degree, and initiatives like this are basic to that technique,” he added.
The coaching schedule targeted on a number of key areas, divided between specialist batting, bowling, and fielding periods.
Gamers engaged in scenario-based coaching to enhance their decision-making underneath stress, sport consciousness, and tactical play. Power and conditioning periods designed to enhance health and forestall accidents have been additionally performed.
The camp aimed to develop technical cricket skills, psychological resilience, and tactical understanding wanted to succeed at increased ranges of competitors.
Pathway coaches have been uncovered to progressive coaching methodologies as they offered focused ability improvement for the gamers.
