Bermuda cricketers Malachi Jones and Rodney Trott will fly to St Kitts in March for an intensive eight-day coaching course that could eventually see them training with English county champions Nottinghamshire.The pair have been selected by head coach David Moore to attend the ICC Americas Regional Academy alongside the best players from the region.ICC High Performance Officer Andy Pick will run the camp, along with several high profile coaches including John Abrahams, the former Lancashire captain and now elite player development manager at the England and Wales Cricket Board.Initially Pick will use the time to help him identify the best players in the region, and having done so he expects to put that knowledge to good use by helping players progress beyond the regional level.“What it (the academy) will do is allow us as a regional office to have a database of the best regional players,” said Pick, “and my job, really, is to try and find opportunities for these people.“I think certainly the guys from Bermuda have got a better chance if they’ve got British passports, because obviously a huge resource is England, with the huge amount of cricket they play.“It’s something I’ve been talking to David about, and trying to exploit some opportunities there.“That’s really a big part of what I’m trying to do, I’m trying to find jobs. Whether it be identifying schools where guys can go at 16 or earlier to finish their education in a cricket environment, it’s about identifying scholarship opportunities.“We’ve got an agreement with Nottinghamshire. They’re quite happy to take three or four lads, bowlers, as part of their pre-season.“They (the players) will be completely emersed in their cricket, so they will train with the lads, they’ll do the fielding, the gym work, everything, so eat, sleep and drink cricket for a month.“It’s opportunities like that, maybe trying to find league cricket. We’re hoping that we might get a couple of places on the West Indies High Performance camp. So all those sort of things, we’re trying to get opportunities together.“So certainly the guys that we identify in these camps, they will be the guys that get those opportunities.”Bermuda’s Under-19s will also get a chance to push their case to be involved in a similar academy, with Pick planning on picking an All Star 15 from the players who take part in the ICC Americas tournament in Florida next month.“We have an Under-19s tournament next month, so what we will do at that tournament we will select, for want of a better phrase, an All Star 15, and then with a little bit of luck, if the funding is there within the budget, we would like to do an Under-19s camp at the same time next year.“One of the other things we are trying to do is we have lobbied the West Indies to see if we can put some age group teams in their competitions.“So we would have an Americas regional team, so for the best 19s players, Bermuda Under-19s wouldn’t be the highest level they could play. They could then come together as part of an elite team and play international stuff in the West Indies.”In total 14 players from the seven Associate countries in the Americas region will be at the academy, which runs from March 1 to 10, and will be based at the Warner Park Cricket Ground.During the eight days, the players will train in match scenarios, and in groups depending on their specialties, and Pick said the main aim of the camp was to get the players to think more.“All countries are the same within the region in that they don’t get the amount of match practice they would like,” said Pick.“So I think there is always a lot of natural talent in the countries, I think it’s just tactical nouse they are missing. Not missing completely, but an area which is limited in how much they can work on.“Countries that have got full time coaches can work on their technique all the time, but you can’t work on matches unless you play matches, so that’s something we’re going to provide a bit more of. And then we’ve got one game towards the end when we play a St Kitts & Nevis team to try and tie all the stuff that we’ve done together in a game plan, and put it out in the middle.“We’ve assembled a good group of people and it’ll be a fairly strict thing time-wise and discipline-wise. It’ll follow the lines of a high performance camp and we think what we’re going to provide is something that these players can’t get in their own countries.”