DEVON'S cricketers are to get some top-flight preparation for the season ahead during a high-performance session at the University of Exeter Cricket Centre.

Mark Wagh, a top-order batsman with Nottinghamshire who has scored 26 centuries in his First Class career, will be working with the batters and talking about the pressures on batsmen in the various forms of the game.

Brett Morrissey, a leading sports psychologist, will be talking about the qualities that create winning minds in players.

Morrisey is just about to team up with the Delhi Daredevils to continue his work in the Indian Premier League with a team including Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Daniel Vettori.

Roger Newman, Devon's director of cricket, has used the contacts he built up while academy director with Warwickshire to organise the session. It is first and foremost for members of the county squad, but young players and their parents are welcome to go along and watch.

Said Newman: "We are very fortunate to get people with this level of expertise to give their time free of charge for Devon cricket.

"At our last session Kabir Ali came down from Hampshire and did a master class on fast bowling.

"Next month we have a leading player lined up to work on fielding.

"Devon is considered to be a 'first class county' in the non-first class game and in the magnificent Devon Cricket Centre the aim is to prepare in the professional way required to maintain that reputation in 2010."

Wagh and Morrissey will be working with Devon on Saturday, February 27 between 9am-noon.

Meanwhile, Devon's top brass is set to change at the county club's annual meeting in Exeter next month.

Long-serving chairman Roger Moylan-Jones is poised to move 'upstairs' to the role of president, which became vacant when former Test umpire and Devon player David Shepherd died last year.

The chairman-elect is Geoff Evans, who has been secretary of the club for almost 25 years.

The new secretary will be Neil Gamble, the former headmaster of Exeter School.