Regional U-19 Academies Cricket Programme (2019) commences
Eight weeks long Regional Under-19 Academies Programme, part of the National Cricket Academies Programme 2019-2020, kicked off at 14 regions of the country.
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A total of 320 teenage cricketers, 20 from each of the 16 regions, are taking part in the programme which will continue for eight weeks and is a part of National Cricket Academies (NCA) Programme 2019-2020. This event has been designed keeping in mind future pathways and better career opportunities, including potential selections in the upcoming Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Under-19 and first-class tournaments, as well as the Under-19 World Cup 2020.
The cricketers were selected earlier this year when the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced a comprehensive and busy National Cricket Academy Programme 2019-2020, which have already commenced and culminate next year around the same time.
PCB Director Academies Mudassar Nazar, said,
“The academies are our nurseries that produce raw talent which we can nurture and improve. The main emphasis of the all the qualified coaches over the next eight weeks will be to improve the fitness, technical, tactical and mental skill competencies of these youngsters keeping in view the upcoming season.”
The National Cricket Academies (NCA) Programme 2019-2020 has been broken into four different categories, namely: Player Skills and Training, Youth/Talent Hunt and Skills Training, Game Education Programme, and Players Development at Regional and High Performance Centers.
Under the Player Skills and Training Programme, the National Cricket Academy has planned nine different activities that are targeted and focused at enhancing the cricketing and personal skills of the U-13, U-16 and U-19 cricketers.
Under the Youth/Talent and Skills Training, five U-13 and U-16 tournaments have been scheduled apart from the talent hunt exercise, wide-ranging courses for the emerging coaches have been incorporated in the Game Education Programme, while follow-up programmes for the teenage cricketers will be held under the Player Development at Regional and High Performance Centres programme.
The year-long activity kicked off at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore on 17th June, when the Pakistan U-16 squad and reserves for the tour of Bangladesh assembled in the first phase of the 12-week session until 13th July.
In the second phase of this programme, Pakistan U-19 side will arrive on 15th July at the back of their tour of South Africa on an eight-week course. This is to ensure there is no interruption in their preparation for next year’s ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup South Africa 2020.
Curtain will fall on the NCA Programme 2019-2020 with the four-week Emerging Players Fitness Training Camp in Lahore in June 2020.
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