India is calling for a group of Prince Edward schoolboys expected to fly out of Harare bound for New Delhi on Monday for a historic two-week tour of the vast Asian country.

The Prince Edward cricket team has finally honoured a long-standing invitation from a youth cricket organization to participate in a schools-only tournament that involves agents of the world-famous Indian Premier League (IPL).

Finer details of the deal were not made available to Suburban as school headmaster Agrippah Sora is currently away, but the team has been in camp for close to two weeks in preparation for the trip and the ensuing competition.

It is also understood Prince Edward, long a target of the tournament organizers, will be the only school from Zimbabwe taking part.

India is a major test-playing nation and one of the giants in the world game with the IPL rivaling already existing global leagues in both class and wealth. Several top international players, including some Zimbabweans, have seen action in that competitive division.

A schoolteacher at Prince Edward informed SportsZone of the cricket team’s impending trip.

“Our cricket boys are hard at training in preparation for their flight to India on Monday. They are heading for New Delhi but I am not sure if all the games they are travelling for will be in that city. It is said they will get an opportunity to impress IPL clubs,’’ he said.

Prince Edward, who will be fine-tuning for 2017, had a topsy-turvy cricket season in which they were middle-rankers at tournaments such as the Smashing T20 at St George’s and Ram Slam T20 at St John’s. Their touring squad could however include players of their Under-16 team who won the National U16 Cricket Festival at PE.

In a related development, the school has shed light on the student status of Zimbabwe Under-19 player Daniel Zvidzai. The cricketer’s school was doubly attributed as PE and Northwood when he broke into the Young Chevrons a fortnight ago.

“Zvidzai was a student at Prince Edward for his Form One and Two. He would have been in Form Five here but he accepted a cricket scholarship at Northwood in Form Three,’’ a sports master clarified.

He said the confusion over which school he rightly belongs emanated from stagnant data in local cricket records which needed regular updating.