Gennext Cricket-Fresh Perspectives for a New Season

Rome was never built in a day. It took years of spirited effort, process, team work, patience, dedication and above sacrifice to build the great city. We at Gennext Cricket Institute truly believe that we have a system in place to churn out outstanding human beings, role model citizens. When tiny tots walk into our park at the beginning of each season, it is our charter to the parent that we will transform the child into a champion. Now here by Champion we implore the reader not to mistake it to be a Champion in the game of cricket. We assess skills, train, mentor, identify areas of improvement and then provide for necessary feedback to the parents. This is exactly what makes us stand out as an institute that specializes in excellence not just Cricket.

It was a bright sunny morning at the institute when TBK ventured forth with his two sons, enrolled them for a new season. You must be getting to whats cooking. With TBK around a blog must be round the corner. So he goes around for a customary walk round the park, camera in hand, he has been granted that extra special privilege of walking around, talking to coaches, bowling a few balls, attempting a few knocks and loading a few customary bytes of information. There have been quite a few times when the author has had inspirational sessions with the Mentor-In-Chief Ashwin and the Chief's Chief Ravichandran Uncle as he is popularly referred to in local circles . Each of these sessions have been nothing short of inspirational. But more of that in another blog. Today TBK catches up with Sudarshan in a candid conversation about this season, lets now hear on:( By the way Sudarshan and TBK have forged a great partnership something on the lines of Vikram-Vedha. TBK asks the question, Sudarshan gets it right each time. Spoof TBK vanishes with the blog in hand) Well taking off from the last scene in the movie, guns pointing at each other they decide to spar with each other over a blog. Yenna Sudarshan Sir, Oru Kadai Sollava?(What Sudarshan Sir, Shall I tell you a story?

TBK(Aka Vedha): Hello Sudarshan(Aka Vikram), Can you elaborate more on the kind of packages being run this season. It would be highly beneficial for parents who wish to enrol their children for cricket coaching at Gennext Cricket Institute.

Sudarshan(Aka Vikram): Apart from the weekend coaching programs called Straight Drive that is being run for all age groups, we have specialized programs for Sub Juniors, Juniors and Seniors.

For the kids at the Sub Junior level- ages between 6-9 we have a program called Evolve, which runs on four week days in the morning. As the name suggests here we look at evolving the childs basics skills and the development of the game. Here we do not jump start the child into a red cherry or the cricket ball immediately but with passage of time as and when we feel that the child is ready to graduate to the next level.

Vision 20-20 is the next program in our basket. Here the age group that we are looking at is any child aged between 9-12. More than the age of the child here we also assess the child, depending on their current skill sets and their abilities we induct the child into this particular program.

High Performance: This is the last of our products but highly specialized in terms of training. The program runs on all five days of the week from Monday through Friday. Lot of inputs are being focussed into this program, Individual fitness levels are linked into, and reports are generated for each and every ward at the end of each month.

TBK (Aka Vedha): You have answered well Sudarshan(Aka Vikram), but there are more challenges ahead for you Viki boy. Can you please talk about any innovative ideas being implemented at Gen-next.

Sudarshan(Aka Vikram): We have started a new concept called open wicket sessions where the players are encouraged to play in the open without the nets. In the nets the shot may look beautiful in execution but you can never really gauge the power of the shot and the reach, but in a open wicket session the player gets to know his actual power hitting capabilities. Also the batsman gets to know the gaps in the field, whether he pierces the gaps in the field or clears them convincingly. Second  keeping in tune with Modern Day Cricket we have power hitting training sessions to cater to the increasingly popular T20 format. Lots more on the plate, we will keep rolling them out in the near future.

TBK: Impressive Suds boy.  Seeing the rise in popularity of the game in India specific to women, What are the plans to encourage more girls to take up the game of Cricket?

Sudarshan: At Gennext we have always believed that the game should be open to all irrespective of being a boy or a girl. In fact in the past we have had quite a few girls who have trained at our academy. One of our coaches is in fact a lady-Yuvashree who has represented Tamil Nadu in Cricket. Yes there are plans to get into specialized training for the girls as well much like our other programs. You will shortly hear from us in this regard.

TBK: The mentor of Gennext Ravichandran Ashwin has a packed schedule over the next few years. Does he have any thoughts on the path ahead for Gennext Cricket Institute:

Sudarshan: Never mind the next two years, its been always hectic for Ash ever since the inception days of Gennext. He is very much involved in the day to day running of the institute, constantly giving us his valuable inputs. Whenever he is in the city, he keeps visiting the institute and mentoring the kids. Not only that he interacts with all the coaches around, ensuring that they are abreast with the latest coaching methodologies and the equipments to be used. Ashwin has always been there with us when we need him and will be there with us in the future as well.We have expansion plans to be implemented including a few franchisee ideas that we are toying around with.

TBK: Brett Lee has stated in the media that India needs a pacer who can clock a 150mph delivery.  Any exciting pace bowling prospects in Gennext Cricket Institute

Sudarshan: Gennext High Performance Centre has quite a few promising quicks in the offing. We have Kaushik who builds up quite a pace. We are currently working on his bowling action so that he generates more pace. Then there is the 15 year old lad, promising fast bowler Prasanna who plays 4th division league in the city. We are hoping that Prasanna will be an exciting prospect in the next few years to come.

Well the lively conversation did come to an end. Vikram and Vedha decided to build truce, for the sake of a sequel, time being they walked over to the neighbor-hood shop for a generous helping of Elaneer water(Coconut Water). Entire state of Tamil Nadu seems to be reeling over an overdose of copious amount of Oviya tears(Wish we could do with Real Water not Reel Water. We pray for it to rain in Chennai) while Big Boss is away in Sri Lanka, on national duty making the Sri Lanka Batsman dance to his tune of spin music.