One-week camp for Windies Under 19s
Published:Tuesday | August 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:
Members of the West Indies Under-19 squad have assembled in Barbados for a one-week camp, as they prepare for a tour of India next month.
The players will spend a week at the Sagicor High Performance Centre at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies, under the guidance of the management unit led by head coach Roddy Estwick, assistant coach Stuart Williams, team manager Courtney Walsh, as well as the staff of the Sagicor HPC.
The WICB selection committee named a squad of 19 players for the camp, following the recent WICB Regional Under-19 tournament in Guyana.
Several members of the squad were part of the tours of Dubai and Florida earlier this year, while six players earned selection for the first time. The new faces are batsmen Emmanuel Lett, Bryan Gayle, Akeal Hosein and Chanderpaul Hemraj, along with left-arm spinner Larry Edward and fast bowler Marquino Mindley.
Estwick said the camp was organised to do full assessments of the players and to continue the good work which was started by the team earlier this year when they beat Australia Under-19 in the three-day match and 50-over series in Dubai in April, and hammered the USA Under-19s in four 50-over matches in Fort Lauderdale last month.
Estwick said the overall aim is to be "fully ready mentally and physically" for the upcoming tour, towards winning the International Cricket Council's Under-19 Cricket World Cup, slated for Australia in August 2012.
Spin bowling
"During this camp we will have a strong bias toward playing spin bowling ... a lot of emphasis will be placed on how to approach spin bowling, which will be very important for the lads as they prepare to go off to India," Estwick noted. "As we know, in India you can expect to get pitches which will favour slow bowling."
SQUAD: Ronsford Beaton, Amir Khan, Chanderpaul Hemraj, Derone Davis, Akeal Hosein, Steven Katwaroo, Emmanuel Lett, Marquino Mindley, Donovan Nelson, John Campbell, Bryan Gayle, Sunil Ambris, Kavem Hodge, Larry Edward, Kraigg Brathwaite, Jerome Jones, Anthony Alleyne, Justin Greaves, Kyle Mayers.