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THAILAND’S WOMEN IN BANGALORE

Thailand’s Women’s Team will be in Bangalore for two weeks in September, training at the National Cricket Academy. They will be playing four Twenty20 matches against Karnataka representative sides. Former ACC Development Officer and Bangalore native “Roger Binny was instrumental in setting up the program,” says Cricket Association of Thailand Chief Executive Mohideen Kader, a former school-mate of Mr. Binny’s.

With financial support from Thailand’s National Sports Council the women’s team have been training rigorously for the past 18 months. There have been few opportunities on turf however. “The purpose of this tour to Bangalore is to give the players practise on turf. It has been raining consistently in Thailand this summer and the players have had no opportunity to be out in the middle in match-conditions. Playing in India will be challenging and a good experience,” says Mr. Kader.

Thailand, as with China’s women who are currently also in India, are preparing for the Guangzhou Asian Games in November this year. The squad will be captained by Sornnarin Tippoch and coached by Tithi Kader.

THAILAND’S UMPIRES TAKE CENTRE STAGE

It is often Thailand’s talented young cricketers who make the headlines with their ability on the field but it was the turn of the some of the country’s leading umpires to demonstrate their talents when the Cricket Association of Thailand staged two three-day umpires’ courses first in Chiang Mai and then in Phuket.

David Walker, well known for his role as tournament director at the Asian Cricket Council tournaments regularly staged in Chiang Mai, is also one of Thailand’s best qualified umpires. He has recently returned from Malaysia where he successfully trained to become an umpire educator under the expert tutelage of former international umpires Peter Manuel and KT Francis from Sri Lanka and Pakistan’s Mehboob Shah, so he is now able to pass on his knowledge to inexperienced umpires and hold training courses in his own right.

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Basic cricket Coaching Course Uttardit-2010

CAT recently conducted a Basic Cricket Coaching Course in Uttradit the northern area of Thailand from the 22nd to the 25th of July, 2010. A total of 27 participants from all over Thailand attended the cricket coaching course. The participants were given an introduction to the sport of cricket with the special attention paid to the coaching elements. Considering that this was the first time that most of the participants had been exposed to cricket, the participants absorbed all the material decimated to them by CAT resource group rather well. The course was conducted by CEO of Thailand cricket Mr. Mohideen A. Kader, Narumol Sirisuwan and Women’s national team captain Sornarin Tippoch. CAT hopes to see all those that took part in the course to implement cricket in their own province and help to promote cricket in Thailand.
The course instructor said “all of them had good sporting back ground but were new to cricket. We are hopeful that many of the participants would introduce cricket in their respective provinces with a view to participate in the National Youth Games next year.”
CAT is looking at building practice and playing facility in Uttardit. Uttradit will host the National Youth Games next year and will be fielding teams in both women and men category.

ACC Level 1 Coach Course – Khao Yai

Over the last weekend CAT organized with the ACC a five day ACC Level 1 Coaching Course, from the 4th till 8th of June. The course was conducted by ACC Development Officers Aminul Islam and Rumesh Ratnayake. Course like this one will help CAT meet the increasing demand for cricket coaches from local schools around Thailand.

Cricket in the past two years has taken major steps forward and with the inclusion of cricket in the Makhamwan Games (National Youth Games) cricket uptake is only going to increase. Due to the fact that each province hosting the games is required to field a team for every single sporting discipline. With more provinces coming onboard CAT is constantly searching for means of increasing the local number of coaches.