Leading U-15s for Walsh camps

This year's fourth staging of the Supreme Ventures-sponsored Courtney Walsh Cricket Camps will see 40 of the nation's top under-15 cricketers taking part.

The camps, which will run for a week each, are scheduled to be held at St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) and Melbourne Cricket Club. Action started on Thursday at STETHS and will continue at that venue until Wednesday, August 25. They will move to Melbourne Cricket Club next Thursday, August 26, and continue until Wednesday, September 1.

The players, who hail from different sections of the country, were selected from a series of two-day parish clinics.

The selectees are all of the age where they can represent Jamaica in next year's West Indies Under-15 Tournament.

During the camps, the boys will receive tutelage from national coaches Junior Bennett and Robert Samuels, and Courtney Walsh.

The camps will be residential so as to allow for a number of 'beyond the boundary' presentations designed to help the players with their all-round development.

Awards

These will include sessions on deportment, diet and nutrition, substance abuse (delivered by JADCO), dealing with the media, and the history of West Indies cricket.

Each camp is set to end with a two-day game, after which sectional awards will be made to the top performers at a subsequent awards ceremony.

Selectees for the first camp at STETHS are: Sahid Crooks, Ricardo Barnes, Jevoy Spence, Ramaal Lewis (Westmoreland); Lynden Gairy, Gerard Henry, Gareth Henry, Leroy Lugg (St Ann); Sanjae Ferguson (St James); Lynden James Jr (Trelawny) Robert Stewart, Dwight Smith, Odane McCatty, Romaine Morris, Lintel Barnes, Mark Parchment, Jordan Nembhard (St Elizabeth); Hakeem Wright, Rushane Hamilton, Ross Lowe, Kashane McDonald (Manchester).

The selectees for the Melbourne Camp will be announced early next week. These selectees will hail from Kingston and St Andrew, Portmore, St Catherine, Clarendon, St Mary, St Thomas and Portland.