ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has begun the 12 months with three groundbreaking high-performance initiatives to raise the usual of cricket within the area.
The initiatives introduced collectively worldwide experience and regional expertise in an unprecedented effort to strengthen each enjoying and training capabilities.
The primary two initiatives concentrate on superior batting strategies towards spin bowling and enhancing spin bowling capabilities with a concentrate on wrist spin.
The specialised Excessive-Efficiency Batting Spin and Spin Bowling Camp, which is able to run from January 11 to January 17, options 30 of the area’s most promising gamers.
The six-day intensive applications intention to refine members’ abilities below the steering of Chennai Tremendous Kings Academy head coach Sriram Krishnamurthi and spin bowling coach Amar Rashid.
For gamers like Matthew Nandu (Guyana), Kirk McKenzie (Jamaica), and Kevin Wickham (Barbados), this camp builds on their expertise on the Chennai Tremendous Kings Academy in India final December, the place they educated alongside 4 different West Indies gamers.
The third initiative is a Teaching Symposium, which can be held on the Coolidge Cricket Floor in Antigua from January 13 to fifteen.
The symposium aimed to boost the skillsets of regional franchise coaches whereas broadening their information to help the event of franchise and worldwide gamers.
The symposium’s key targets included clarifying for coaches the necessities for growing and managing gamers on the franchise stage to fulfill the West Indies model.
It additionally geared toward empowering and enabling a collaborative studying group amongst coaches to realize world-class outcomes.
Eleven coaches from the six franchises attended the symposium, together with two coaches from the Mixed Campuses and Schools crew. Over the three days, West Indies head coach Daren Sammy was considered one of six presenters.
Chennai Tremendous Kings Academy Coaches joined CWI Teaching Growth Guide James Davidson in delivering classes.
Eleven franchise coaches and two from the Mixed Campuses and Schools crew attended the symposium, which supplied a platform for information alternate and emphasised making a pathway for teaching excellence within the area.
CWI Director of Cricket Miles Bascombe praised the three initiatives.
“These parallel applications signify a strategic funding in West Indies cricket’s future.
“We develop abilities and construct a sustainable cricket ecosystem by combining worldwide experience with our regional expertise. The mix of specialised participant improvement via our Excessive-Efficiency Camp and the elevation of teaching requirements via the symposium creates a robust framework for achievement,” Bascombe stated.
“Notably thrilling for us is how we’ve got related our latest initiatives, just like the Chennai Tremendous Kings Academy expertise, with these new applications to create steady improvement pathways.
“This complete method ensures we’re growing each our present and subsequent era of cricket professionals in alignment with fashionable cricket calls for,” he added.
