Christian Burgess will get to spend a week training alongside the likes of Kevin Pietersen, Darren Sammy and Ross Taylor in June.

The Bermuda wicket-keeper has been assigned to the St Lucia Zouks franchise for this season’s Caribbean Premier League.

Pietersen and Sammy are two of the four players that St Lucia chose to retain from last season, and they picked up Taylor, the New Zealand batsman, in the CPL draft earlier this month.

All three have a wealth of international experience that an excited Burgess said he cannot wait to “soak up”.

Sammy and Taylor are presently in Australia and New Zealand playing in this year’s World Cup, while Pietersen, the former England player, is generally acknowledged as being one of the best batsmen in the game.

The week-long training camp that Burgess has been invited to participate in will run from June 13 to 18, with the league taking place from June 21 to July 26.

“It’s going to be an amazing experience, I’m excited,” Burgess, the St George’s player, said.

One of six players from the Americas region to be selected for the opportunity to ultimately earn a playing contract with the CPL, Burgess will have to compete for a spot in St Lucia with five West Indies Under-19 players, as well as two established wicket-keepers, Johnson Charles and Andre Fletcher, who St Lucia retained from their team last season.

Charles and Fletcher, who opened the batting together for St Lucia on several occasions in last year’s CPL, have both represented the West Indies, with Charles due to play in the ICC Champions Trophy in England before the CPL season begins.

Other players with international experience in St Lucia’s initial 15-man squad include the likes of West Indies trio Shane Shillingford, Fidel Edwards and Kemar Roach, who has played in the Indian Premier League for Deccan Chargers.

Burgess, however, is not looking past the week he will spend training with cricketers who have played the game at the highest level.

“I’m trying not to think about that too much,” Burgess said.

“It’s more or less go and soak up as much knowledge as I can from these international cricketers, and the way they carry themselves, and how they go about training, and the way they do what they do.”

The Bermuda wicket-keeper is not going to just make up the numbers, ICC coaches have praised his ability behind the stumps and with the bat, and Burgess is joining a franchise that struggled in 2014, losing seven of the nine games that they played.

St Lucia finished second bottom, only ahead of Antigua Hawksbills, who have dropped out of the CPL this year and have been replaced by the St Kitts and Nevis franchise.

Before joining up with his team-mates in St Lucia, Burgess will travel to Barbados for an ICC Americas camp with the five other players from the region to have been awarded training contracts; Steven Taylor (United States), Nitish Kumar, Nikhil Dutta, Satsimranjit Dhindsa and Farhan Malik (all Canada).

The ICC have yet to say where the other five players will be based, with an announcement expected to be made in the coming weeks, and the six ICC Americas players will meet up for a training camp in Barbados for a week before heading to their respective franchises.

St Lucia Zouks: D Sammy, R Taylor, K Pietersen, J Charles, A Fletcher, S Shillingford, S Gabriel, K Lesporis, K Roach, L Sebastien, K Mayers, F Edwards, H Davids, D Johnson, E Leie.