With a view to ensure that no one should be devoid of good cricket coaching, sports technology firm Funnage, has launched nationwide Cricket scholarship programme – FG Power Player which will give free training in India and Australia, will start two day trial in Ranchi from January 12 to 14 for boys and girls in the age group of 12 years to 24 years. Ex Indian Test Cricket player, Gautam Gambhir is brand ambassador of Funnage.
Speaking on the issue Marketing head Funnage, Sinchan Mitra said, “Registration will be started on January 10-11 at Harmu Ground, in Ranchi and it can be done through www.funngage.com, by downloading mobile app from Google play store for android users and Apple App store for IOS users. Registration fee for bowler and batsman is Rs1050 and for all-rounder and wicketkeeper is Rs.1950.
This is one time fee for any aspirants in exchange they will get an opportunity for best training in India and abroad.”
“Initial trails will be done on centre wicket of ground with at least 4 High Definition (HD) cameras making ball by ball videos of every cricketer. From the Funnage team best coaches will asses these videos of each player will get a detailed report highlighting their strength and areas of improvements.
The trails will done across India at various cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Patna and now in Ranchi also” he added.
Commenting on selection process Mitra said, “In first round 20,000 players will be selected. In second a total of 600 players will be selected for Meerut camp out of which 120 top players will be selected who visits Australia, Guildford Grammar School, Perth for better training.
The Funnage will conduct all this process free of cost and those 120 finally selected players will also get monthly stipend also. It is completely digitalize trails hence it will be completely transparent.”