The Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) yesterday kicked off a coaching development and high-performance clinic at the Imam Bacchus Library, Affiance.
The three-day clinic is being conducted by Guyana Harpy Eagles’ assistant coach Ryan Hercules Level Three coach Keshava Ramphal.
The programme will cover coaching philosophy, coaching styles, technical skills, constraints and lesson planning on the first day while day two will cover workshops in different aspects of the game. The final day will deal with child protection and practical skills.
Hercules said he spoke to ECB president Deleep Singh about the project.
He said coaches are essential to the development of players.
“It is a memorable day for Essequibo, it is only the first, I speak very deeply of what’s going to happen over the next few days and what we are trying to achieve,” he said.
“Cricket has moved to much more than what we know it as, it is more technical now and to give our players and coaches the best opportunity to do their jobs and players to perform on the field, we have to prepare them,” he said.
The ECB said that the board has identified coaching as the number one priority along with infrastructure, development and administration.
He said that it was the board’s goal to prepare players for West Indies duty.
He praised his executives for their efforts in the three months they assumed office and said that he wanted Essequibo players to establish themselves among the best in the country. The GCB donated $4mn worth of equipment to the county board and GCB president Bissoondyal Singh has made commitments to the ECB to finance the refurbishing of the Hostel and a brand-new bowling machine and the staging of Under-15 inter-county matches.
Present at the event were Regional Chairperson, Vilma Da Silva and Regional vice-chairperson, Humace Oodit
