New Delhi: Following the eight month long Coca-Cola Cricket Cup in which 12,000 young players from 780 schools in 70 districts battled it out in over a hundred matches, three promising cricketers were picked by selectors to travel to England to participate in a specially organised Coaching Camp.
Vikas Dixit and Shivam Chauhan from Delhi, and Pranjal Puri from Indore will fly to London for a 25-day camp and train under former Somerset cricketer Thomas ‘Tom’ Webley at the famous Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, Hertfordshire. The school is well-known in the English cricketing fraternity and offers world-class facilities in cricket coaching.
The selections were made at the end of an intensive three match series where the team played against the Sri Lankan National Under-16 team in, touring Sri Lanka from May 27 to June 3 2013.
Dixit, Chauhan and Puri outperformed 12 other players from their team, the Coca-Cola XI, to earn this excellent life changing opportunity. All-rounder Dixit, who is best known for his match-saving century against the Sri Lanka U-17 team, is a star player from New Delhi’s Salwan Boys High School. Representing LB Shastri Cricket Club, he recently claimed all ten wickets in the DDCA Sr. Division League match. Chauhan, who is from the same school as Dixit, represented Haryana in the prestigious Vijay Merchant Trophy in 2011 and was the highest scorer for his team. Puri is a product of the renowned Residential Cricket Academy in Madhya Pradesh and came into the spotlight after displaying some brilliant economy rates in the Coca-Cola Cricket Cup. The pacer, who represented Christian Eminent School, claimed two crucial wickets against the Sri Lanka U-17.
Coach Webley represented Somerset as a left-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler in the 2003 Frizzell County Championship and played for Dorset (2005) and Suffolk (2006-07) in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship.
Procam International will nurture these boys both on and off the field, enabling them to make the best use of their talent and be given opportunities to succeed in the sport of cricket. Players from the previous edition who were provided with an opportunity to hone their skills in the UK were Sarfaraz Khan from Mumbai, Nitin Tanwar from New Delhi and Akshay Brahmbhatt from Baroda.
All three players will leave on June 9th and return on July 5th 2013. The children will stay with Indian families in Bratford, London.
