The national female Under-19 cricket team commenced training on Monday at the Guyana Cricket Board’s Training Facility at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara.
The camp is being used as part of the squad’s preparation for the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional female U-19 tournament, to be held in Trinidad and Tobago from next week.
Successful national under-15 coach Julian Moore is the head coach of the camp and is being assisted by experience coach Michael Hyles.
The first day of the six-day encampment was used to have a thorough assessment of the players, according to Moore.
“Today (yesterday) we were unable to utilize Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground due to rain, however, we made use of the LBI indoor facility to thoroughly assess the players technical facets and to come up with interventions moving forward,” said Moore.
The players were not selected from an inter-county competition as is the norm for selecting most national training squad, however, when questioned about the selection of the squad, Moore was unaware of the criteria used.
According to Colin Stuart GCB’s Territorial Development Officer the structure of women cricket locally is in the process of development and it is not model as the male component, so the team was mainly selected from programmes that preceded the training camp.
The training squad consists of 19 players, six of which have played in previous tournaments.
At the end of the camp on Saturday the squad will be cut to 14 members and will leave Guyana on Tuesday.
