Author- FATOUMATTA SAHO (TODAY Newspaper)
The
Gambia Cricket national team set to take part in the International
Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup cricket league division 3 due this
month April in South Africa. The Gambia alongside Zambia, Rwanda,
Cecil, St. Helina, Morocco, Lesotho and Mali will battled it out at
the competition.
The
sixteen man delegation led by team manager Malamin Fofana and ICC
level three coach Johnny Gomez took off today Wednesday 18th
April 2012 via Senegal to South Africa.
Speaking
to this reporter,the president of the cricket association who doubles
as the head coach of the national team Johnny Gomez revealed that the
team will have a one week camping in the High performance school in
Pictoria, South Africa ahead of the competition.
Coach
Gomez believe that things will happen this time around with the level
of preparation that the team will have ahead of the competition
compared to previous competitions, noting they will qualified from
division 3 to division 2 with the right man stepping in. “ We are
just coaches and the work has to be done by the players in the field,
they have to be confident, bold because its T20 and they have to
take that risk and play properly, we have been training with them
having tactical discussion every night”.
He
also revealed that they have been training with 19 players and ended
up selecting 14 players which is the required number to take part in
the competition, since they cannot all participate though it was
difficult but at the end of the day we had to select the people who
can play the T20 version.
He
further revealed that Gambia National Olympic committee has given us
D15, 000 dalasis to add to our budget as we are also looking
forwards to our sponsors to come on board before the day.
“Everything has been done and we are waiting for the participation
fee to be paid by the government and we will be on the way because
all the arrangements has been done”.
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