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Sunday, July 20, 2025

CWI launches major training initiative in India for emerging talent

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Sport Desk
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Matthew Nandu, who scored 260 runs at an average of 43.3 and a top score of 116 in the recently concluded CG United Super 50 Cup 2024 for Guyana Harpy Eagles will be making the trip to India.

Matthew Nandu, who scored 260 runs at an average of 43.3 and a top score of 116 in the recently concluded CG United Super 50 Cup 2024 for Guyana Harpy Eagles will be making the trip to India.

Courtesy CWI Media

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has un­veiled a ground­break­ing de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme, set to pro­vide spe­cialised train­ing for sev­en of the re­gion’s most promis­ing young crick­eters. This ini­tia­tive will take place at the pres­ti­gious Chen­nai Su­per Kings (CSK) Acad­e­my in In­dia this De­cem­ber.

The se­lect­ed play­ers will be ac­com­pa­nied by West In­dies Acad­e­my head coach Ramesh Sub­as­inghe and as­sis­tant coach Ro­han Nurse. The con­tin­gent is sched­uled to leave for In­dia on Fri­day (No­vem­ber 29), with the two-week in­ten­sive train­ing camp run­ning from Sun­day (De­cem­ber 1) to De­cem­ber 14.

This ini­tia­tive rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant in­vest­ment in the fu­ture of West In­dies crick­et, fo­cus­ing on de­vel­op­ing the elite Un­der-25 tal­ent pool. Among the cho­sen par­tic­i­pants are three con­tract­ed fran­chise play­ers, Kirk McKen­zie, Matthew Nan­du, and Kevin Wick­ham.

Al­so mak­ing the trip are cur­rent and for­mer West In­dies Acad­e­my play­ers Ted­dy Bish­op and Jew­el An­drew. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, for­mer West In­dies Un­der-19 stand­outs Jor­dan John­son and Ac­k­eem Au­guste, who have demon­strat­ed ex­cep­tion­al po­ten­tial in re­gion­al crick­et, are part of this co­hort.

CWI Di­rec­tor of Crick­et, Miles Bas­combe, ex­pressed the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s en­thu­si­asm for the pro­gramme.

“CWI is com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for our emerg­ing play­ers in over­seas con­di­tions. In this case, the Chen­nai Acad­e­my will host these sev­en bats­men and aim to equip them with skills and ex­pe­ri­ence in nav­i­gat­ing spin­ning con­di­tions. Our coach­es will be on hand to en­sure that the learn­ings in the pe­ri­od can be con­sol­i­dat­ed and ex­tend­ed to oth­er play­ers in the re­gion through the acad­e­my.”

The pro­gramme in­cludes a mix of match play and train­ing, with par­tic­i­pants set to com­pete in a two-day match and three white-ball fix­tures. These ac­tiv­i­ties are de­signed to en­hance the play­ers’ abil­i­ty to tack­le spin bowl­ing, a crit­i­cal skill for suc­cess in sub­con­ti­nen­tal con­di­tions.

At the CSK Acad­e­my, the play­ers will work un­der the guid­ance of es­teemed coach­es, in­clud­ing Acad­e­my Di­rec­tor Sri­ram Kr­ish­na­murthy.

This ini­tia­tive draws in­spi­ra­tion from sim­i­lar suc­cess­ful pro­grammes, such as train­ing camps or­gan­ised for the New Zealand Test team. Be­yond hon­ing tech­ni­cal skills, the pro­gram em­pha­sizes build­ing men­tal re­silience and cul­tur­al adapt­abil­i­ty.

Up­on their re­turn, the play­ers will act as am­bas­sadors, shar­ing their ex­pe­ri­ences and learn­ings with ter­ri­to­r­i­al coach­es and peers across the Caribbean.

CMC


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