May be we should send our entire national team except Pilot to this place. Ofcourse including Bashar.
http://in.sports.yahoo.com/051006/139/60g48.html
Kolkata, Oct.6 (ANI): Indian cricket captain Saurav Ganguly launched his state-of-the-art cricket academy in Kolkata on Wednesday evening, saying that he would be actively involved in its operations and its growth.
The Videocon School of Cricket academy was inaugurated by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
Speaking before the media, Bhattacharya urged Ganguly to take out time to groom youngsters in the nuances of the game.
"You are no doubt the captain of India, but you are a citizen of Kolkata. You have to take some responsibility out of your busy schedule. You are moving all over the world, running the team. I know your responsibility, but you have to give inputs, some thought, some concepts on how to work along on this cricket school," he said.
"Well, as you have heard from the Chief Minister that he wants that I should help few boys whenever I am free, and of course I will do that whenever I am free," he said.
The 'Prince of Kolkata' played a perfect host of the evening as he egged on young and upcoming cricketers to take full advantage of the academy.
Ganguly's cricket school has come up on a five-acre plot of land provided by the city's Metropolitan Development Authority and will initially take in 700 students.
It has hard soil and different types of clay pitches, bowling machines to simulate fast bowling and 12 nets of international standard to provide enoughpractice space for 300 students simultaneously.
With an ultra-modern gym, library, classrooms for theoretical and video analysis, psychological counselling and experienced coaches and guides, Ganguly is expected to churn out world-class cricketers from the academy. (ANI)
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