Chennai: The Sri Ram Universal School (TSUS), Chennai in collaboration with HotFut Sports, on Sunday 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. (UNI)
