Whether it be bowling, batting or ?keeping behind the stumps, Stephen Bremar jr continues to demonstrate why he is widely considered as one of Bermuda?s top all-round future cricket prospects.

Only last April national selectors took a gamble and named the 17-year-old Warwick player to the senior team for a training camp in Trinidad.

And if there were any doubts over the teenager?s ability at a higher level, then they were quickly laid to rest in Bermuda?s opening tour match against Clark Road United which saw Bremar ? opening the innings ? score an aggressive 38 and share in a 68-run first wicket partnership with Treadwell Gibbons jr (48).

That innings set the tone for what ultimately turned out to be a valuable learning experience for the Berkeley Institute student who is also a member of Bermuda?s highly talented Under-19 national squad due to compete in Barbados early next month.

Bremar was among those who took full advantage of the indoor batting facility at the Sir Frank Worrell Cricket Academy in Couva, Trinidad.

?I used the facility a lot, working on a specific technique. I was always getting caught out hitting the ball backward of square because of my backlift. But while I was in Trinidad I was able to make the adjustment,? the youngster explained.

?I worked extremely hard on my game in Trinidad and Gus (national coach Gus Logie) taught me a lot of new techniques to work on.?

And it was this form Bremar demonstrated shortly after returning to Bermuda as he hammered an unbeaten 150 against visiting Haverford College at the National Sports Centre, an innings littered with boundaries.

?I was able to use some of the new techniques that coach Logie showed me and it has helped my game,? he added.

A relative of former Willow Cuts, Southampton Rangers and Somerset Cup Match fast bowler, George (Friday) Bremar, the promising Warwick cricketer admitted he was surprised to earn a call so soon to senior national team duty.

?I was a bit surprised . . . but I had been training with them for a while,? he said. ?I was a bit intimidated at first, but the coach broke the game down for me and after that everything worked out. I just braced myself because I knew before I left Bermuda I would be opening the batting.?

As for the level of bowling he faced, Bremar noted: ?The bowling over there (Trinidad) was a lot more consistent . . . you have to play every ball on its merit.?

Bremar is among a young talented group of cricketers now trying to stake claims in either Cup Match or the senior national team. Others include Malachi Jones, Oronde Bascome, Dion Stovell and Rodney Trott.

?My main goal is to get back in the (national) team and make some runs,? said Bremar, who noted that he was saddened to see his former coach at Warwick, Allan Douglas, take a back seat from coaching due to increased work commitments.

?That was a bit of a shock to me because he (Douglas) was there when I was young. But now I guess I?ll just have to adjust to him not being around anymore.?