Chennai, Sep 11 : The Sri Ram Universal School (TSUS),
Chennai in collaboration with HotFut Sports, today launched
the Gary Kirsten Cricket India Academy (GKCI) at the SPR
City at Perambur in Chennai city.
On the occasion, South India’s first ever Padel Court was
also launched in addition to the announcement of a National
Cricket Talent Hunt to be conducted by the GKCI.
SPR Group is one of Chennai’s leading developers and creators
of Chennai’s largest Integrated townships and will now have a
state of the art cricket academy and Padel court at their premises.
The Cricket academy at TSUS will be the first GKCI in South
India. The academy was launched in the presence of TSUS
Co-founder and Ttrustee Navin Ranka, GKCI India Director
Anand Mittal, officials at SPR, and Jean Cilliers, the Head
Coach for GKCI and Daniel Seha, the Chief coach for GKCI
India.
The Gary Kirsten Cricket India, the brainchild of Gary Kirsten
founded and deployed a unique teaching methodology and renowned
coaches’ development platform which is designed by Gary Kirsten.
All the head coaches in GKCI come through Kirsten’s system in
South Africa.
Gary Kirsten will personally come down to India to conduct the
GKCI International high-performance camps where he spends up
to seven days with the GKCI students and athletes on the ground,
guiding, training and assessing both students and coaches.
Every City where GKCI operates is headed by a South African
Coach. The coaching pedagogy and coaches’ education platform
are world-renowned and are the unique feature of GKCI.
GKCI follows a 1:10 Coach: Students ratio.
On the occasion, South India’s first ever Padel court was also
launched. The new
Padel, a game that is a blend of tennis and squash, has higher
social engagement than comparable sports and is easier to enjoy
when practising it, and does not require a high expenditure by
the players.
