It's Just Cricket youngsters enjoy a training session with Zimbabwe in Dubai

Denzil Pinto 17:05 06/02/2018
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  • A group of budding cricketers picked the brains of Zimbabwe captain Craig Ervine and head coach Heath Streak during a special training session in Dubai.

    Ervine and Streak as well as Lance Klusener and Sean Bell, members of the national team’s coaching staff took time out from their busy schedule to share their tips to more than 15 youngsters of It’s Just Cricket Academy in a two-hour masterclass at Dubai College.

    The visit was arranged by Sam Charnley, international director of cricket at IJC and their head of development Bradley Staddon, who assisted Zimbabwe’s training sessions ahead of their series against Afghanistan in the UAE.

    For Charnley, he said it was a great experience for the young cricketers and has no doubt that their time with Zimbabwe will help them with their development.

    “It was a fantastic experience being involved in Zimbabwe’s training session and the fact they wanted to come down to the session to see local talent and get involved was amazing,” he said.

    “Our players got an opportunity to get inside of the minds of the coaching staff and players of Zimbabwe national team and asked as many questions as they wanted. The opportunity they had on Wednesday was another great bit of exposure to the highest level that we provide. Previously, we have had visits from Muddassar Nazar, John Gloster and Apurva Desai (Dinesh Karthik’s batting coach).”

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