BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A Twenty20 match for rising gamers within the Caribbean could also be on the playing cards for subsequent yr.
Director of cricket Miles Bascombe stated Cricket West Indies (CWI) and organizers of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) are working collaboratively to establish the following technology of gamers to characterize West Indies within the format on the worldwide stage.
“There may be some recognition that the CPL might not essentially be the place these stars would emerge, so we’re working with CPL to have an rising gamers’ regional T20 match,” Bascombe stated throughout a CWI information convention on Monday in Bridgetown.
“We acknowledge in T20 cricket that we’d like a strategy to discover our subsequent crop of T20 gamers. We have now had success in T20 cricket, and I’m certain the pinnacle coach [Darren Sammy] is anticipating extra success as we play at house on this (T20) World Cup. However we typically nonetheless should work onerous at discovering our subsequent crop of rising T20 stars.”
The T20 match is a part of a collection of growth tasks that CWI plans to undertake to revitalize the sport within the Caribbean within the coming years.
Bascombe stated creating a sustained pathway to the worldwide stage for males’s and girls’s gamers was important to the high-performance agenda.
“Pathway growth can be key to our cricket system,” he stated. “On the boys’s aspect, we’re virtually the place we wish to be. We have now gamers coming into the system formally from the Beneath-15 stage, choosing up proficient gamers from 12 however typically from 13.
“We have now construction for these gamers by way of to Beneath-19s, and we have now acknowledged that on the Beneath-23 stage, we nonetheless have leakages at that age group, and we’re working to make sure that we have now a program that helps to seize these gamers.
“Over the following few months and years, you will note plenty of work going into the boys’s Beneath-23 program.”
On the ladies’s aspect, Bascombe stated: “We solely at the moment have senior ladies’s and Beneath-19s, and if we wish to get to the highest of world cricket in ladies’s cricket, we have now to seize youthful expertise and have them enjoying the sport at an earlier age, giving them extra consciousness, and ability growth.
“We’re working to introduce a ladies’s Beneath-16 program, which is able to start to roll out this yr and evolve right into a ladies’s regional Beneath-16 match inside a couple of years.”
On this regard, Bascombe stated CWI has began working with coaches within the territories to convey alignment to the model of play and efficiency indicators throughout codecs.
“What that has seemed like to this point has been assembly between our head coaches and the territorial head coaches,” he stated.
“This model and efficiency indicators additionally should be documented as a result of the intention is for us to drive that West Indies model of play down into our age group ranges in order that we create a model that every one West Indian cricketers play as they arrive by way of the pathway.”
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