Ockbrook & Borrowash Cricket Club to attend Training Camp at Desert Springs

Ockbrook & Borrowash Cricket Club 1st XI team and U’13 squad will be stepping up their preparations for the 2022 campaign with a three (3) day training camp at Desert Springs ICC accredited Cricket Ground & Academy between Saturday 9th – Tuesday 12th April.

Twenty-six (26) players and sixteen (16) coaching staff will be involved in a mixture of high performance training, spending their time completing a specific and carefully planned programme of numerous training sessions each day covering technical skills, bowling and batting, strength and conditioning and both individual and group activity.

Grass net practice will take place at the Cricket Academy.

Ockbrook & Borrowash Cricket Club 1st XI team will compete in two separate T20 Matches with teams also present at Desert Springs for their pre-season training camps; Buckingham Town CC and Barnt Green Cricket Club on Sunday 10th and Monday 11th April respectively.

The players and coaches will be accommodated in some of the privately-owned Apartments and Townhouses at Desert Springs and the resort’s executive chef will be on hand to cater for the special dietary requirements of individual players dining in the Crocodile Club Restaurant.