Na­tion­al Un­der-15 crick­et coach Glen Dwari­ka re­cent­ly re­turned from the third an­nu­al West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) San­dals Foun­da­tion U-15 High Per­for­mance Camp in An­tigua, and he be­lieves pro­grammes such as these will ben­e­fit West In­dies crick­et in the fu­ture.Dwari­ka, who coached the na­tion­al U-15 team to the WICB U-15 ti­tle from Ju­ly 12-26 in Ja­maica, was hap­py with what he saw at the sev­en-day camp from Au­gust 21-27.Play­ers and coach­es, in­clud­ing 57 young men from the Lee­ward Is­lands, Guyana, An­tigua and T&T par­tic­i­pat­ed in the camp which was bro­ken up in­to three pil­lars–tech­ni­cal skills, tech­niques and strat­e­gy and life skills. St Lu­cia, Ja­maica, Bar­ba­dos and Wind­ward Is­lands took part in a sim­i­lar camp in St Lu­cia.

The play­ers, who bat­tled for the re­gion­al U-15 ti­tle last month, joined forces, work­ing to­geth­er dur­ing the ses­sions to im­prove their knowl­edge and skills of the game."All the teams worked to­geth­er, these play­ers will go on to rep­re­sent the West In­dies in the fu­ture," Dwari­ka said.He men­tioned play­ers got to gel with each oth­er and build chem­istry which will ben­e­fit West In­dies crick­et.For­mer West In­dies bowlers Andy Roberts and Rawl Lewis al­so stopped by to pass on their ex­pe­ri­ence to the young­sters. Dwari­ka al­so stat­ed the par­tic­i­pants at the camp al­so did health ses­sions in ar­eas such as in­jury pre­ven­tion and man­ag­ing in­juries.