Future WI stars training at Balmain

A squad of 19 Under-15 players from across the Caribbean are in camp for two weeks at the Sir Frank Worrell Cricket Development Centre, Balmain, Couva.

They are aiming to improve themselves for the benefit of West Indian cricket in years to come. The session was launched last Saturday by Alloy Lequay, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board. “We are not only concentrating on producing cricketers but in producing good people who could play cricket,” Lequay said. He told the youngsters that the TTCB had a vision to establish the Academy as such an idea was now placed on the back burner of the WICB. Lequay said the TTCB had purchased 17.5 acres of land from Caroni (1975) Limited in 1995 to set up the National Cricket Centre and so far they had spent $10 million to put in facilties. This includes the Administrative Building, the Sir Frank Worrell Cricket Development Centre, as well as a manual scoreboard, sightscreens, outdoor nets, a gymnasium, indoor nets, dormitory rooms,  a conference room, and  facilities for ensuring mental and physical education preparedness. Dr Michael Seepersad, Cricket Development Officer of the WICB, told the trainees, that they must be fully prepared for the training exercise as it was aimed at producing cricketers who would one day represent the region.