As the 2015/16 Professional Cricket League (PCL) Regional season looms closely, Coach and Manager of the defending champions, Guyana Jaguars yesterday bowled off a three-day training session at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.
Since winning the title a few months back, the Jags took some time off before resuming weekly sessions conducted by Head Coach Esaun Crandon, Assistant Manager Rayon Griffith and coaches Michael Hyles and Clive Grimmond.
With most of the players missing due to commitments internationally or regionally, the team focused on a few of their senior players who remained encamped, mainly the young Academy Tier 4 players such as Steven Sankar, Dexter George, Kemol Savory, Gudakesh Moti, Kevon Boodie and others.
However, with the third edition of the Hero CPL over also the West Indies fixtures for the next few months, the Jaguars were boosted by the return of senior players Leon Johnson, Assad Fudadin, Chris Barnwell, Paul Wintz, Devendra Bishoo, Veerasammy Permaul and others.
According to Crandon, yesterday’s session was conducted mainly to assess the players physical condition as they were put through various runs, sprints, and the infamous Beep Test. Crandon said that he was satisfied with the result from the first day and hinted that while the players seemed to be fit, it came as no surprise because most of them were engaged in cricket while the others trained four times a week.
“Most of the guys have been active even those guys who were away with the CPL team were active. Today is the first of three days so we will be focusing on aerobics, tomorrow (today) strength and stability tests at the gym and on Wednesday we
