Ghana Cricket teams prepares for international assignments
In line with their objective of raising formidable teams to represent Ghana and win honours in the forthcoming international assignments slated for August and September this year, the Ghana Cricket Association (GCA) has started organising various trial matches for the Under 19 and the senior cricket team.
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A member of the GCA, Mr Henry Benjamin Ackom, who briefed the Daily Graphic about the preparations, said while the senior team would be in Zambia in August this year to participate in the Africa Division two T 20 league in Zambia, the Under 19 squad would be scheduled to compete with their counterparts from Mozambique, Rwanda, Swaziland, Sierra Leone, Zambia and South Africa in September this year.
According to Mr Ackom, the senior side would lock horns with teams from Nigeria, Seychelles, Swaziland, Mozambique, and the host team from Zambia during the competition.
He said it was to ensure that Ghana excelled in those international assignments that the GCA had started early preparations to select the best materials.
He said as part of the preparations, the GCA, in conjunction with their regional associations from the Ashanti, Central and the Greater Accra regions, had lined up a training programme which would last until the end of July.
He said a number of the youthful players in the Ashanti Region had already been selected to join their counterparts in Accra with the view to organising a number of trial matches for them .
This, he said, would enable them to select the best from those players and offer them the requisite training that would put them in good shape, assuring that with this, those who would be selected to form a team would be able to overcome the challenges likely to confront them in their international assignments.
“Through our development programmes in the Central Region, we have also indentified a couple of the U-19 players who are going through rigorous trial matches, so we hope to have a formidable team to represent Ghana in September this year,” he said.
