The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is reportedly taking a major decision to upgrade its women’s cricket team, keeping in mind the upcoming Women’s T20 World Cup.

It is reported that to form the team for the high-profile event, where cricketers will have to hold their nerves, the ECB will send the team to train with the British Army. Training with the Army will help the team prepare both mentally and physically for the Women’s T20 World Cup.

England women’s cricket team to train with British Army

Due to training plans with the British Army, the team will skip this weekend’s round of domestic matches. The 15-member England cricket team will spend the weekend in a program focusing on “decision-making, resilience and high performance when pressure mounts”, management told the BBC.

The BBC, in its latest report, mentioned that the location of the special field is not revealed. This camp will be organized before the women’s team’s first match of the summer, which will be against New Zealand.

The trip, to an undisclosed location in the United Kingdom, comes a week before the team’s first international match of the summer – the first of three one-day internationals against New Zealand on Sunday, May 10, according to the report.

Why did the ECB decide to create a special camp?

“Three T20s against the White Ferns follow before a further three T20s against India. England’s World Cup campaign begins against Sri Lanka on June 12. We are very fortunate to be able to send our newly selected World Cup team to one of the best high-performance environments in the world,” said England and Wales Cricket Board director general of women’s cricket Clare Connor.

“I am sure that what the players will experience and learn in the coming days will be invaluable when it comes to performing in some of the pressure moments that a World Cup at home will undoubtedly bring,” he added.

The men’s cricket team trained with the army before

Training with the Army is not new in the history of the England cricket team. In 2010-11, before The Ashes Test series, the men’s cricket team went to a five-day military training camp in a German forest.

The camp and tough training with the army proved fruitful as England defeated Australia in the five-match Test series 3-1. It was reported that during the special camp, James Anderson broke his ankle during a boxing match. It was believed that despite some challenging difficulties and obstacles, the training brought members closer to each other, which contributed to improved team bonding.

Before the 2013-14 Ashes, the board again ordered the same. However, the plan did not work out as planned as Australia defeated the Three Lions 5-0. Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson was at his best, taking 37 wickets.

“In the Staffordshire countryside, the England team were thrust into a role-playing scenario in which they were tasked with preventing a simulated crime. After receiving professional surveillance training, the players were divided into three groups and given separate tasks to solve the case, but they did not camp out, instead spending the night at a local hotel.” The Guardian provided a glimpse of the specially organized training camp in 2013.

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