Associates prepare for success at ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

The countdown is on to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 (CWC 2011) in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. With the qualifying tournament coming up next April, the top Associates are already preparing for what will happen should they win one of the four places on offer.

Teaching players how to cope with the physical and mental strains of cricket in south Asia, devising a competitive match schedule, setting up targeted and specific training camps at the ICC Global Cricket Academy and linking with players’ representative bodies to make sure of the best possible preparation are just some of the initiatives currently underway. 

The chief executives and national coaches of each of the six high performance Associate Members (Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, Netherlands and Scotland) met at Lord’s cricket ground in London last week for a four-day planning forum with all eyes now fixed on qualification for CWC 2011.