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Anthony urges more use of technology as inaugural Cricket Academy closes
HISTORIC!!! Graduates of the inaugural National Cricket Academy pose with minister, Dr. Frank Anthony (4th, left) and Guyana Cricket Board President, Chetram Singh (3rd, right) at the National Gymnasium yesterday.
By Edison Jefford
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday urged the introduction of technology into the training camps and academies for local cricketers. He said that will help Guyanese cricketers become more competitive.
Anthony was speaking at the Closing Ceremony of the National Cricket Academy, which his Ministry, in collaboration with the National Sports Commission and Guyana Cricket Board hosted from July 13 for Under-15 cricketers.
“There must be more use of technology. There is a programme called Silicone Coach that is used by the Jamaicans; it helps analyse techniques and identify mistakes. If we’re to be competitive, we have to use those methods,” he said.
Guyana’s performance in regional cricket have slumped at both the Senior and Under-19 levels with minnow teams such as Windward Islands and Combined College and Campus recording recent victories over Guyana.
The minister did not speak directly of the slump, but he said that the use of technology in the preparation of our teams must be brought on stream as early as possible. He said that the Cricket Board was tasked with that mandate.
Asked if there are plans to inaugurate similar academies for other sporting disciplines, he promptly told Kaieteur Sport, “not yet, but we are open to work with associations,” in an invitation to other national sport federations.
Anthony indicated that the ministry alone cannot take credit for the success of the cricket academy since it was as a result of a collaborative initiative that the cricket board started and approached the ministry for their support.
“What you are seeing here is as a result of a year of discussion with the Cricket Board. If we want to develop sports, we must work with national associations. If we go alone, it will be difficult to produce results,” the minister said.
Anthony mandated the cricketers that benefited from the camp to return to their particular communities and share the knowledge that they have acquired. It was a call like the idiom says, “han’ wash han’ mek han’ come clean”.
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