Young Sables step up preps

next week when some of the foreign-based players join the local contingent.
The home-based players have been training under the guidance of coach Brighton Chivandire and his assistant Godwin Murambiwa at Prince Edward School.
Over the past days, the local players were busy at Prince Edward where they had a morning session on Sunday and also had another session on Monday afternoon.
The foreign-based players were provided with training schedules and diet programmes to follow in their respective countries.
Utility forward Charles Jiji, Cory van Rensberg and Takudzwa Jaravaza are some of the players that are expected to be part of the training sessions next week.
Murambiwa yesterday indicated that the side was expected to start full camp at the beginning of May when most of the players, both locally and foreign, will be in.
“Some of the players have gone back to their bases but from next week we are expecting the foreign-based players to start coming back and be part of the training sessions here.
“Jiji, Cory and Jaravaza are all expected to be here next week so they will train with the local players but we will have our full camp come May 1 where we expect most of the players to be in around that date.
“Marco Mama might be delayed though because he has communicated to us that he is having college exams (in the United Kingdom),” said the former Sables coach.
Over the past week, the coaches also utilised the tour by the British Barbarians Under-18 side to select some of the players that could make it for the squad.
With a month before the side travels to Georgia for the world junior tournament, the side will also take part at the Cottco Schools Rugby Festival at Prince Edward School.
Last year, the Young Sables also used the Cottco game against the Goshawks as a platform to assess their strength before their departure for Russia.
In Georgia, Zimbabwe have been drawn in Pool B where they are expected to battle Canada, Japan and hosts Georgia.