U-19 camp to start at BKSP on Sunday
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|| CF Correspondent ||
The residential camp of the newly-formed Bangladesh Under-19 Cricket Team will start at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP) Ground-3 with the fitness training tomorrow.
A total of 45 players, splitting into three Groups-A, B and C, will take part in the four-week camp which will end on September 17.
The Games Development (GD) of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) organized three-phase corona tests for the players and coaching and supporting staff of the teams.
Only a player named Iftekhar Hossain Ifti was diagnosed with corona negative in the second phase test. The BCB medical department kept him isolated.
Regarding the matter, BCB Games Development senior national manager AEM Kawser said the camp of the youth Tigers will start with the participation of the 45 players at BKSP tomorrow.
“We’ve finished all the procedures for starting the camp. All the players and coaching and supporting staff are staying at BKSP. Hopefully we could start our planned camp from tomorrow,” said AEM Kawser.
“It would be better if we could get all the coaching staff including foreign coaches of Naveed Nawaz and Richard Stoiner. But you know we’re now in a new situation for which many countries imposed travel restrictions for the people. They along with us are trying to come back here in Bangladesh,” Kawser told Cricfrenzy.com over phone.
“Our local coaching will work and guide the players in the four-week-long camp in Savar,” he added.
Local coaching staff including Mehrab Hossain Opi, Talha Jubair and Mohammad Salem will supervise the training camp in the absence of the foreign coaching staff, who can’t come right away due to the respective countries’ travel restrictions.
But head coach Naveed Nawaz is expected to join the fag’s end of the camp. Sri Lanka-born coach is in Australia with his family. BCB extended his stint for the next two years after Bangladesh Youth Tigers’ historic World Cup had triumphed in South Africa in 2019.
“We’ll trim the squad with the help of the age-group selectors. They will play a slew of practice matches beside their regular training. Our selectors will keep their vigil eyes on the players to pick the most latent players for the final Under-19 squad who will next represent Bangladesh in the World Cup,” he said.
“We have planned to find 22-24 more players for the main Tigers squad whittling down the primary squad. Hopefully we could pick the best players and will go to the next ICC world Cup with the best squad to defend for the coveted title that we won last year,” he added.
