Matt Taylor selected for ECB Pace Programme
19 September 2016
Gloucestershire's Matt Taylor has been selected as one of five young bowlers to join the ECB's Pace Programme taking place this Autumn and also in the New Year.
The Pace programme is one of four component to the ECB International Pathway, which also includes England Lions, England Young Lions and Overseas Placements.
The five young fast bowlers who are aged 19 and 23 have been selected for the Pace Programme, under which they will combine training with their counties and at the National Cricket Performance Centre, Loughborough before Christmas, and then travel to the High Performance Institute of Sport in Potchefstroom for warm-weather altitude training in the New Year.
The Five bowlers have been selected for the full programme this winter are Matt Taylor (Gloucestershire), George Garton of Sussex, Saqib Mahmood of Lancashire, Durham's Paul Coughlin - whose younger brother Josh is in the Young Lions squad - and Tom Helm of Middlesex, who has also been invited to do some bowling at the Lions training camp in Dubai with two legspinners, Matt Parkinson of Lancashire and Josh Poysden of Warwickshire.
Kevin Shine, the ECB's lead fast-bowling coach, worked with the former England bowling coach Troy Cooley in establishing the PEPP a decade ago - with the aim of "reinforcing the physical and technical foundations required for international fast bowling".
Shine will also liaise closely through the autumn with Hampshire and Somerset as Reece Topley and Jamie Overton continue their rehabilitation programmes after injury, with the hope that they will also be able to boost their preparations for the 2017 season by joining the warm-weather training camp in South Africa.
