Khaleej Times

Whatmore’s special training at Kricket’s Spero winter camp

- KT Report sports@khaleejtim­es.com

dubai — Dav Whatmore, former Australian cricketer, one of the most reputed coaches in the cricketing world and current coach of the Kerala cricket team, will be providing special training in the winter coaching camp of Kricket’s Spero.

Kricket’s Spero has designed a specialise­d winter camp which began on December 16 and runs until December 31 at the Al Nasr Club, with focus on fitness, endurance and strengthen­ing. The camp provides cricket enthusiast­s an opportunit­y to train with highly acclaimed coaches and fitness trainers along with four days special training with Dav Whatmore.

“Kricket’s Spero follows a systematic training approach I come to understand the crucial role Kricket’s Spero is playing to develop the cricketing skills of youngsters in this part of the world. The success of 16-yearold Varun Nayanar in Indian domestic cricket and his chance to play in Kerala State’s U-19 is a strong testimony to the coaching skills of Kricket’s Spero. Following is his two centuries in the Vijay Merchant Trophy, he scored a double century in the Cooch Behar Trophy match,” said Whatmore.

“Apart from Varun, Aditya Prakash has also played for the Kerala U-16 team, in addition to Bethel Jose and Vishnu Menon playing for the Kerala U-14 team. I am sure that this is the contributi­on of dedicated coaches like Sony Cheruvathu­r, Pious Joseph, Ajith Perera, Aneesh Soman, Nishal VP, Rahul Ravindran, Sujith R and Mohammed Aneesh,” he added.

Meanwhile, Reji Cherian, CEO, Kricket’s Spero, said that this is a wonderful opportunit­y for budding players to understand the nuances of cricket from one of the world’s leading coaches.

“Due to our associatio­n with the Kerala Cricket Associatio­n, we are able to get the services of Dav, whose achievemen­ts speak for itself,” said Cherian.

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