da bet esporte： Catch them young is a well known phrase in sporting circles
Staff and Agencies07-Aug-2001* KSCA’s ambitious project to unearth talent in districtsCatch them young is a well known phrase in sporting circles. But nowthe Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has taken this slogan astep further and called their latest junior cricket developmentprogramme `Catch them young and make them great’. This scheme, tounearth talent in the various districts of the state, will be launchedin October.According to a press release from Brijesh Patel, secretary, KSCA,Makarand Waingankar, who has successfully launched and implementedsuch projects in Mumbai for the past two decades has prepared aproject for this purpose, which has been approved by the association.Waingankar has been appointed as consultant for the scheme. Thesalient features are: Initially it will be introduced in the 13districts of Mysore, Mangalore, Mercara, Udupi, Shimoga, Hassan,Hubli, Belgaum, Tumkur, Davanagere, Raichur, Bijapur and Bangalore;Age group will be between 15 and 17; There will be 20 players at eachcentre, totalling 260 players; Frank Tyson, the former England fastbowler and renowned coach will conducting a two week course for 70coaches from September 24 to October 6; A few more districts would beadded next year.The KSCA Academy at Bangalore would invite 140 players from sevenzones in a group of 20 to undergo advanced training for a week fromNovember 1, 2001 to January 15, 2002. Based on the performance ofthese players, the best would be selected for the six week summervacation camp. Patel expressed confidence that the scientificimplementation of the project would help unearth young talent.* TA Sekhar is Tamil Nadu selection committee chairmanFormer Test cricketer TA Sekhar, who is the South Zone representativeon the national selection committee has been elected chairman of theTamil Nadu State selection committee. The other members of thecommittee are VB Chandrasekhar, Tony Adams and M Venkatramama.Former State and South zone medium pacer K Bharath Kumar is again thecoach for the Ranji Trophy team. The other coaches are: Under-25: RMManohar. Under-22: T Doraiappan. Under-19: H Sundaram. Under-16: CSUmapathy. Under-14: CP SridharThe following are the other selection committees:Under-14 (State): L Venkatnarayanan (Chairman), L Navaneethakrishnan,RV Pattabhirman (Trivellore) and Albert Muralidharan (Tirunelveli) ForCity: L Venkatnarayanan (Chairman), L Navaneethakrishnan, Yusifa Lailaand PR Venkatsybramanian. Under-16: KL Balaji (Chairman), CKVenkatraman, A Shajahan and H Jayaprakash. For City: KL Balaji(Chairman), CK Venkatraman, R Mukund and L Rajkumar. Under-19: B Arun(Chairman), M Senthilnathan, N Venkatraman (Dindigul) and LR PramoodKumar (Ramanthapuram). For city: B Arun (Chairman), M Senthilnathan,RI Palani and S Srinivasan. Under-22: AP Suresh Kumar (Chairman), CSSuresh Kumar, S Balaji (Kanchipuram) and CV Jaganathan (Coimbatore).for city: AP Suresh Kumar (Chairman), CS Suresh Kumar, VV Sankupaniand D Thiyagarajan.* Gnaneswar Rao to lead Andhra Under-19 teamY Gnaneswar Rao will lead Andhra in the South Zone Under-19 tournamentfor the Cooch-Behar Trophy and the Ghulam Ahmed Trophy matches to beheld later. The team was selected at Visakhapatnam on Sunday after theconclusion of the ACAs Inter-Zone tournament on Saturday.The team: Y Gnaneswara Rao (Captain). ASK Varma, K Srinivasa Rao, VManoj Sai, B Sriharsha, B Srivardhan, PAVN Raju, G Sankara Rao, DKalyan Krishna, K Mahesh Singh, VVV Appa Rao, Khaja Mohiuddin, NJRSPrasad and M Suresh. Stand-byes: Y Lakshman Kishore, D Satish, ARakesh, N Vijay Kumar, M Nayendra Kumar and L Pattabhiramiah. Coach:MN Ravi Kumar.