Budding cricketers can soon practice, perfect and execute the ‘helicopter shot’ of MS Dhoni from his cricket academy online, the registration for which started on Thursday. The ‘helicopter shot’ is a Team India former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni speciality.
As the entire globe is facing Covid-19 pandemic with restrictions and social distancing norms, Dhoni Ranchi cricketing sensations has decided to reach out to his fans and cricket lovers through online classes. Interested budding cricketers have to get registered with Aarka Sports which is a leading Sports Management Company, which specializes in athlete and player management.
Aarka Sports manages MS Dhoni Cricket Academy in India & Abroad. Currently MS Dhoni Cricket Academy is located in Gurugram, Bareilly, Bokaro in India and Dubai, Singapore in abroad. The company is in talks with several institutions & will come up with many more academies in near future.
Aarka Sports director Mihir Diwakar, a former Ranji player and a childhood friend of “Captain Cool” Dhoni, said: “The idea behind starting online cricket coaching is to provide cricketing skills and techniques to budding players in the state. The online classes started on Thursday at 4 PM and Captain Cool gave vital tips.”
Diwakar said that the online coaching session has been divided in different categories: cricketing tips for players at the age of six to eight years, initial cricketing tips (bowling, batting and fielding) tips to cricketers at the age group of nine to eleven years. Also there will be cricket tips for those senior players who want to horn their games. Senior players will be given training on footwork, defense and other cricketing skills.
The online classes are open for all and anyone interested in learning cricketing skills can register with Aarka Sports. However, the registration is chargeable. Budding cricketers getting registered with Aarka Sports will not only be trained online but the Academy is going to create a pool of 200 experienced coaches across the country who will train budding cricketers’ offline. The job of coaches will be to clear the doubts of budding cricketers on ground getting classes online.
Banshidhar Sarangi, who runs a cricket coaching academy in Ranchi said, “This a good step as during lockdown when there are restrictions on opening stadiums and parks, such type of online classes can help cricketers in continuing their games.”
Echoing the views of Sarangi, Aashish Kumar a budding cricket player said, “Dhoni is Indian Cricket Team one of finest players. His style and technique of batting and fielding has become trademarks of games. If he is imparting online classes budding players will be benefitted.”