Eight-week Regional U19 Academies Programme Commences
Zeeshan Mehtab Published June 24, 2019 | 11:46 PM
Pakistan Cricket Board funded eight-week Regional U19 Academies activities, as part of a robust National Cricket Academies Programme 2019-2020, kicked-off on Monday at 14 different regions of the country
A total of 320 teenage cricketers, 20 from each of the 16 regions,are taking part in the programme that has been designed keeping in mind future pathways and better career opportunities, including potential selections in the upcoming PCB U19 and first-class tournaments, as well as the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020, said a spokesman of the PCB here.
"The regional cricketers were selected earlier this year and the 20-player groups also comprise players from all the districts who had been invited for open trails in their respective regions.
" While Karachi and Multan are also housing cricketers from Larkana and Dera Murad Jamali, respectively, other regions hosting the academies include Abbottabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Faisalabad, FATA, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi and Sialkot.
PCB Director Academies, Mudassar Nazar, said here: "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 and opportunities that lay ahead."
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