U-19 Girls & U-17 Boys National Squad Training Camp

The U-19 girls and the U-17 boys national squads took part in a 10 day training camp starting 15th October. The camp saw both the squads followed a daily routine of 8 hours of training sections which consisted of batting, bowling, fielding and a lot of fitness and team work drills. Following the training sessions in the evening for 1 hour the teams got together for a meeting to overview personal performance goals and objectives which had been set for the day. During the course of the camp boysU-17 squad took part in of three 40 over games to help further enforce what had been worked on in the training sections and to gel and operate as a single cohesive unit.

Through the course of the camp all departments showed remarkable improvement. In terms of batting the top order consistently scored runs and build meaningful partnerships (i.e. first practice game 198/5 from the top order). In the bowling department none of the regular blowers more than 5 extras between them in a match while the new ball bowlers were consistently moving the ball both ways (i.e. third practice game opposition 98/10).

Everyone in the squad has shown improvement in terms of fitness, which helped the boys towards the latter stages of the games. As the boys’ fitness improves they will become mentally tougher. With performances like this during the camp it seems that Thailand have the potential to secure the upcoming 2008, ‘ACC U17 Challenge Trophy’.