Cricket Uganda has completed a productive engagement at the ICC Emerging Nations High Performance Workshops, held on November 27 and 29, 2025, at the Grand Mercure Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. The sessions gathered performance experts from the ICC and the BCCI Centre of Excellence, with a mission to strengthen pathway structures, performance planning, and long-term competitiveness among emerging cricket nations.
The workshops featured in-depth presentations led by BCCI specialists, including Apurva Desai, who outlined models for effective performance planning, player development, and upskilling—frameworks that have contributed to India’s successful women’s and age-group programmes. A. I. Harrsha, Lead Performance Coach at the BCCI Centre of Excellence, also delivered a technical session on building teams capable of performing at world-championship level. His presentation emphasized the importance of conditioning, performance science, and structured athlete management.
ICC Women’s Cricket Manager Snehal Pradhan facilitated discussions on the accelerating competitiveness of women’s cricket worldwide, focusing on actions emerging nations can take to close the gap.
Uganda made a notable contribution through Richard Okia, Cricket Uganda’s Head of High Performance and Pathways, who presented “Uganda’s Journey to Contracts.” He highlighted the nation’s steps toward professionalizing women’s cricket and strengthening support structures for elite athletes.
“The High-Performance Workshop gave us clear and invaluable insights on how to improve our HP pathways, strengthen our training and support our players better,” Okia said. “We are now more focused and better prepared to continue growing women’s cricket in Uganda.”
Cricket Uganda Honorary Secretary Denis Musali described the sessions as eye-opening regarding workload management and intentional performance planning.
“You learn that you have to be intentional about every outcome; there is no success by mistake,” Musali noted. “We are grateful to the ICC for organising such engagements, and now the homework is with us to implement what we learned.”
Lelia Namaganda Ondeko, Cricket Uganda’s Women’s Representative on the Board, echoed the importance of the insights gained, stressing deliberate planning and investment as key to accelerating progress in women’s cricket. She expressed confidence that the knowledge shared on pathways, performance planning, and player development will help Uganda unlock new opportunities for its women’s programme.
Assistant coach Brian Masaba and members of the Ugandan delegation also engaged in sessions on modern high-performance trends, including technology integration, data-driven coaching, and long-term pathway design.
With the workshops concluded, Cricket Uganda says it is entering its next phase of development equipped with new strategies aimed at building stronger and more competitive national teams across all levels.
