THE Melbourne-based Young Cricketers Development Program has claimed its hat-trick of wins at an annual under-17 cricket tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, earlier this month.
The YCDP has sent sides to the competition for several years and this year’s side featured a number of junior players from the Dandenong District Cricket Association.
The team beat a Malaysian XI to claim the Twenty20 tournament for the third straight year. YCDP development manager Vernon Tissera said the team — led by Peter Mathison, Johann Jayasinha and himself — had done very well to beat the Malaysian side, which had beaten a strong Sri Lankan team in the semi-finals.
Tissera said the tours taught players much about cricket and also about different cultures as they played and mixed with cricketers from Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India.
The YCDP side was captained by Liam Wolters and included Rama Davies, Clayron Landers, Liam George, Loughlin O’Connor, Riley Sheldon, Cleyon Landers, Billy Green, Mitchell Forsyth, Cameron Scott and Schintha Peiris. The program will send its first girls’ team on a tour to Sri Lanka and Malaysia in July.
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