PaceLab Delivers Girls-Only Fast Bowling Camp at NICE Cricket Academy, Bangalore

From 2nd to 4th March, PaceLab was proud to deliver a girls-only fast bowling camp at NICE Cricket Academy in Bangalore, led by Steffan Jones and hosted by Arjun Dev.

The camp brought together a group of highly promising young female fast bowlers for three days of specialist coaching, learning, and development. There was amazing talent on show across the camp, with a number of bowlers demonstrating real potential, strong intent, and an exciting platform to build from in the years ahead.

We would also like to say a big thank you to Arjun Dev for hosting us and helping make the camp possible.

Why a girls-only fast bowling camp matters

Female fast bowling development cannot simply be treated as the same as male fast bowling development with a different group of players.

The demands of training, the physical considerations, and the long-term development process all need to be approached with a clear understanding of the female athlete. That includes how bowlers develop physically, how they respond to loading, how strength and power qualities are built over time, and how coaches manage progression in a way that supports both performance and long-term health.

For female fast bowlers, it is important that training is specific, individual, and appropriate to their stage of development. That means not just copying traditional fast bowling environments, but building a process that helps players improve ball speed, technical efficiency, robustness, and confidence in a way that is both ambitious and sustainable.

That was a major aim of this camp.

The aim of the camp

Across the three days, the purpose was to help each bowler better understand what fast bowling performance actually requires and how they can continue to improve over time.

The focus was not simply on bowling more deliveries. It was about exposing players to the key areas that underpin pace bowling performance and helping them understand how those areas connect.

Throughout the camp, bowlers worked through areas such as:

• ball speed development

• technical efficiency

• movement quality

• physical preparation

• workload understanding

• skill execution under different demands

This gave the bowlers a clearer picture of what they need to improve, while also allowing the PaceLab team to better understand the needs of each individual athlete.

For some bowlers, the biggest opportunity may be in building greater physical outputs. For others, it may be technical efficiency, better movement solutions, or a more appropriate approach to training and recovery. The value of camps like this is that they move players away from guesswork and towards a clearer development process.

Specialist support for female fast bowlers

A camp like this also matters because it creates an environment specifically for female fast bowlers.

That environment gives players the opportunity to learn, compete, ask questions, and build confidence around their own game. It also reinforces something important: female fast bowlers deserve the same level of specialist attention, structure, and long-term planning as anyone else in cricket.

At PaceLab, we believe there is a huge opportunity to better support female fast bowlers through more specific coaching, more appropriate training methods, and clearer long-term pathways.

A brilliant few days in Bangalore

We were delighted with the quality of the camp, the engagement from the bowlers, and the standard of talent on show across the three days.

Led by Steffan Jones, the camp was an exciting step in continuing to support the development of female fast bowlers in India and creating more environments where they can access specialist pace bowling coaching.

Thank you again to Arjun Dev and NICE Cricket Academy for hosting us.

This was about far more than just three days of training. It was about helping female fast bowlers access the right support, in the right environment, with a clearer and more informed path forward.