Impart knowledge vital for game’s survival - Paul Wintz at MSC camp

Impart knowledge vital for game’s survival – Paul Wintz at MSC camp

Aug 25, 2016 Sports

The Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) cricket camp continued yesterday with Guyana Amazon Warriors fast bowling all-rounder Paul Wintz engaging the participants on social development and the art of fast bowling.
While Wintz urged the youths to remain committed to the game, he urged them to secure their social growth, especially their education.
He also spoke about his career which started when he was just 13 and continues to flourish. “I was raised in a single parent family (I lived with my mother and sister), my mother instilled the importance of education but I obviously loved cricket and I had to balance the two. I was also part of several camps, initially I was a wicketkeeper but due to playing several tape-ball matches I picked up fast bowling, since then it has been about elevation. Coincidentally like you youngsters here, Mark Harper (the head facilitator of the camp) was also my coach when I first represented Guyana. He taught me a great deal about cricket and life.”
Wintz feels it is important to be involved in such activities because prior to his development there were others who would have done the same to relay information from one generation to another for the game’s survival.
His delivery on fast bowling included how to bowl in-swinging and out-swinging deliveries, how to bowl to aggressive batsmen, bowling up front and at the depth of an innings, slower balls without much change in the action, his approach to a limited overs game as compare to three or four day games among other things that makes him the fine bowler he is today.
Wintz was second in a chain of established cricketers to lecture to the youngsters following his Warriors’ colleague Assad Fudadin.
Prior to the interaction, the first half of the day saw the participants going through various drills to improve their technical aspect of their games.
Yesterday ended the third day of the two-week long camp. The aims of the programme are: to provide a variety of fun and enjoyable activities while teaching the basic skills of the game; to develop hand eye co-ordination, sharpen reflexes, agility and flexibility, balance and speed; to teach the rules of the game by step-by-step instructions; to develop life skills, such as self-confidence and self-discipline; to build and improve skills and athletic capabilities.
The event will run up to September 2. For more information contact 225-6509 or call the club’s treasurer, Troy Lewis on 613-2575.

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