{"id":50,"date":"2026-02-11T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/?p=50"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:44:35","slug":"coventry-training-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/2026\/02\/11\/coventry-training-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry Training Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We seven (team leader Mark, Ali, Alice, Holly, Ken, Lara and Jim) met for the first time at the CWB training weekend in Coventry in early February.   Lots of fun and enjoyable practice sessions plus a chance for the old hands to pass on some knowledge and tips for the trip: &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>You can never have too many tennis balls<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three team cricket is fun<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ugandans drive on the left<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>English electric plugs work fine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A rolex is a lunchtime snack not a watch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Next time we will et together will be at Heathrow on February 28.  Not long to go..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/CWB-Team-2026_0024-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/CWB-Team-2026_0024-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/CWB-Team-2026_0024-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/CWB-Team-2026_0024-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/CWB-Team-2026_0024-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/CWB-Team-2026_0024-2048x1072.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw that, out of the blue, The Times had published a photo of &#8220;Cricket Grannies&#8221; in Jinja.  This hugely successful programme is being driven by a most enthusiastic local coach Aaron Kusasira following a chance encounter between the ladies and us in March 2024. \u00a0CWB were coaching children from a local school and the ladies asked if they could have a go at the end of the session.\u00a0\u00a0 An hour later they were hooked and thanks to Aaron at the Jinja Cricket Academy they&#8217;ve been playing ever since.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/Cricket-Grannies-1024x719.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/Cricket-Grannies-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/Cricket-Grannies-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/Cricket-Grannies-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/Cricket-Grannies-1536x1078.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/files\/2026\/02\/Cricket-Grannies.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seven (team leader Mark, Ali, Alice, Holly, Ken, Lara and Jim) met for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/2026\/02\/11\/coventry-training-weekend\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coventry Training Weekend<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}