U-19 camp at BKSP from August 22 without head coach
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|| CF Correspondent ||
The much-awaiting resumption of cricket in Bangladesh is going to roll onto the ground with the age-level cricket as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will organize a month-long camp with 45 Under-19 cricket players at BKSP from August 22.
They will practice under English trainer Richard Stonier U19. Head coach Naveed Nawaz will be absent for the initial few days.
BCB Games Development senior national manager Abu Imam Mohammad Kawser confirmed the news of the camp for the newly-built U19 set-up to the country’s leading web portal Cricfrenzy.com.
It’s learnt from the BCB sources that Sri Lankan coach Naveed lives at Victoria province in Australia, where the lockdown is going on due to the coronavirus. He can’t come to Bangladesh due to the travel restriction. He is scheduled to join the team at the fag’s end of the camp.
“We’re not getting Naveed right away. But we have hopes of getting him towards the end. And Richard will remain from the beginning. Fitness will be emphasized from the beginning of the camp,” said AEM Kawser.
BCB will keep players under observation two weeks before the start of the camp. The physical state of the players will be monitored through BCB’s corona app. The cricketers will be sequestered into three groups after having brought them at the national cricket academy of the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on August 15.
The corona test of the cricketers will be performed on August 16, 18 and 20 respectively. Everybody will be kept ‘separate’ until the result of the corona test is brought out. Only those who will be corona negative will be allowed to have joined the camp at BKSP.
The camp will open with fitness. The youth players, splitting into three groups, will play some practice matches among them towards the third week of the camp from where the selectors will pick the potential players for the squad of the next World Cup.
It’s a big challenge for BCB Games Development to successfully finish the entire process. But they will not spare no stone unturned.
“The work is, of course, challenging for us. It’s not said that we will be successful 100 percent in the context of our country. But we have no lack of effort but we’ve to stay ready for everything,” Kawser said.a
