The ongoing Champions League fever seems to be gripping a lot of youngsters from the satellite city these days to play the game from the grass root level. With the schools in the city are going to be closed for Diwali vacations, children are making the best of the free time that is available with them. "Standard" C.K. Cricket Coaching Centre beginning Oct 2nd ( Gandhi Jayanthi Day) at the Ground opposite Millennium Towers Sanpada in Sector 9. The coaching starts at 7.30 AM and for the next three hours, Children enjoy playing the game and in the process learn finer points of the great game of cricket on all days of the week. While the boys thoroughly enjoy themselves playing the gentleman's game of cricket for the onlookers too it is a pleasant sight to see the enthusiasm and passion which the young lads feel towards the game. Each ward is getting a chance to bat, bowl and field as well as develop a great team spirit too. Sanpada resident Subramaniam C.K., who is in charge of the practice session for the last one year feels such a strenuous camp is conducted in Sanpada for the first time. C.K. Subramaniam feels that there is lot of talent available in Navi Mumbai, but there are less number of coaching centres. Even now cricket enthusiasts from the city, needs to go to Mumbai and play in Cross/Azad Maidans grounds to prune up their talent in a team game like cricket. In Navi Mumbai, we come across DY Patel Academy and Navi Mumbai Sports Association (NMSA) are providing coaching, says 62 year old C.K. Subramaniam, who is in the cricketing field since the age of 12. So for the last 50 years, the retired SyndicateBank official is on the field under different capacity as a player, Umpire and now a Cricket coach and still hitting the headlines all the time. The boys seem to be having a really good time and he is getting assistance from Vignesh Subramaniam, an ex-player from MCA to get boost to the talent of the youngsters. C.K. Subramaniam gets assistance from well wishers, getting good quality practice balls, costly bats and other equipments to play the game in the best way possible. It is for the first time ever that the wards gets the experience of playing with season balls. Since it is IPL time, the young cricketers try to put practice, whatever they see during the matches previous night. The parents are also happy to see their wards playing the game so professionally under the watchful eyes of an experience coach. Close catching, slip catching and high catching are all taught in a very systematic manner so that the wards can make an attempt to play the game with much needed toughness. Fielding occupies the top spot in this coaching camp and we see some fantastic catches and acrobatic fielding in the outfield. The wards are made tough to become professionals in the available time adds C.K. Subramaniam.
Very few will know that C.K.S as he is loving called has named his coaching camp as "Standard" C.K. Cricket Coaching Camp in the memory of the famous Indian cricketer CK (SIXER) Nayudu. So the kids get to know about the nuances of cricket at this famous coaching centre at Sanpada.
Enthusiastic Subramaniam CK stands at extreme left -service with a smile motto
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