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YMCA Cricket Academy

The YMCA Cricket Club (1) won the Championship for the Karnataka State Cricket Association – Group I - IV Division Cricket Tournament for the Metro Shield and Champions for the year 2007-2008

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(Sitting Left to Right) C. K. Sreedhar & Sailesh. N. Poll (Committee Members), Maridyaue Gouda (Vice President), S.V. Rathna Kumar (President), Santosh Kumar Vadayaraj (Captain), C. G. Sunder (Committee Member), J. Suhas (Secretary), Ravi Kumar (Committee Member)
(Standing Left to Right) Hanume Gouda, N. Narayana, G. Mahesh, Murali, Nawaz, Dharmichand Jain, H.R. Ravi, V.R. Sreenath, Supreeth, Harsha
(Standing 2nd Row) L. Jagadesh, Kushalappa

Where Fitness is Excellence

The game of cricket in the recent times has assumed a great amount of fanfare and favouritism particularly among the student community. A tremendous amount of competition and a high level of efficiency have emerged to be the requisite aspect among kids.

The YMCA - Bangalore with a strong background in sports development, possesses the required infrastructure and expertise and started the Academy as a challenge to bring out the best of not just the Cricketing Skills but also concentrate on the overall development of the children. YMCA CRICKET ACADEMY aims to train, groom and develop youngsters, at the same time not to ignore their academic education. As a part of the main training   programme YMCA introduces an unique training methodology incorporating the highest level of Fitness Training, Education & Cricket skill for the youngsters to make them aggressive, potential and competitive. The Academy ensures every youngster is fit mentally & physically. Multidimensional activities are designed specially to fine-tune their Cricket skills.

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The academy provides the following facilities as a part of the training schedule: yoga, aerobics & gymnastics, physical training & education, diet control & monitoring, parent-children interaction, career guidance & personality development, video analysis & interaction with international cricket players, computer analysis of individuals, on field exposure & international match exposure programmes.

The academy shall provide necessary impetus to all upcoming, competitive and deserving youngsters, by helping them gain valuable match playing experience at various levels of play. The programme shall provide an opportunity to participate in Inter Club, Inter academy and the KSCA league tournaments.  The academy is also conducting an exchange programme with the some International teams to provide a varied platform to hone their Cricket Skills and acumen. Experts from The Sports Authority in India in the fields of Conditioning, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine and Sports Psychology have designed and developed Specialized Training Methods for our Academy Students.

Following area were covered

Cricket Skills, Analysis & Correction Training, Physical Fitness, Weight Training & Aerobics, Stretching Techniques, YOGA and Concentration Techniques, Reflex Techniques, Diet Control & Motivation, Rules and Regulation of the Game & Scoring, Motivation & Self Development, Community Orientation & Related Programmes, Parent Children Interaction – Development Programme

YMCA Cricket Carnival

The Academy organized successfully the Cricket Carnival from November 11th to December 10th 2006 at City YMCA.  The Carnival included YMCA Cup 2006 for under 10 years, for under 13 years, Intra IBM Corporate Cup.  Following Teams participated  - YMCA Cricket Academy, Star Cricketers, Bangalore Cricketers, Jayanagar Cricket Academy and IBM Cricket Team. On the concluding day finals were conducted successfully.  A special function was organized which consisted Fun Games, Cultural Programmes and a Prize Distribution Function.

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We are proud to claim many of the outstanding and talented boys are being exposed to higher standards of the game by being selected to represent YMCA Cricket Club in the Karnataka State Cricket Association League tournament every year.  Young Cricketers from the YMCA Cricket Academy are selected to play for the YMCA Cricket Club, which has got three league teams giving our academy students a direct platform to expose their talents.

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Mr. J. Suhas, Senior Secretary, YMCA is directing the YMCA Cricket Academy

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