Thursday

Camp Going Smoothly - Chris Gayle

As everyone is aware we have a pre World Cup camp going on in Jamaica now and it has been pretty good so far. Everything has been going smoothly and everyone in the camp has been having a good time and enjoying it. The team management has been doing a very good job so far in terms of the preparation and all has been going well.

From a batting point of view we have been doing quite a bit of game simulation and that is good leading up to the warm up games against Kenya and India in Trelawny. It will give us a chance to get into a groove as we go on.

Today was a light day overall. We had a team briefing early this morning where we looked at players from the other teams competing in the tournament and we shared information with each other. We then followed that up with a pool session. Tomorrow we will return to doing some more batting work. It was more of a workshop day today and tomorrow it is going to be more intense and we will do more work on the field.
That is generally how it has been so far for the camp.

The game against Kenya is very important to us. Everyone is looking forward to it, the two warm up games will do us good leading up to the big opening game against Pakistan on March 13 at Sabina Park. These warm up games are good for us because they will give us a chance to show us what adjustments can be made leading up to the first game of the World Cup.

I am personally looking forward to playing at the brand new Trelawny Stadium for the first time. I have heard a lot of good comments being made about it and I am looking forward to getting a feel for what it is like. The guys are very enthusiastic as well about it and we will all be looking to getting acclimatized to the new stadium as soon as possible.

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