MS Dhoni, The 38-Year-Old Is Not Directly Involved With The Operations:
Successful Indian cricketers, despite the latest lockout in place since the coronavirus pandemic. MS Dhoni and Ravichandran Ashwin moved their academies to support online cricket coaching programs.
The MS Dhoni Cricket Academy where the former captain of the team India is not directly active in the activities has provided live lessons on Facebook for its trainees over the past week, according to the article. While Ashwin’s academy partners its wards with the ace off-spinner himself in a number of ways, such as device workshops.
Furthermore, the study says that these online coaching services are given tremendous attention despite the immense popularity of the country’s cricket game.
Satrajit Lahiri, a former first-class cricketer and chief mentor of Dhoni academy, says every video session they post brings close to 10,000 views across social platforms.
The Trainees Also Need To Upload Their Videos:
Lahiri says they use a ‘Cricketor’ app device where they upload their demo exercises. “The trainees must also upload their videos to allow us to keep an eye on their activities. We’re providing reviews accordingly.”
In these demo videos which they uploaded, the batsmen are asked to throw balls continuously against a wall and play with soft hands. Meanwhile, bowlers will conduct various exercises without dropping the ball and pursuing the repeatability of their bowling techniques, and load-up locations.
Other tools such as Ludimos and video-calling applications Zoom or Google Classrooms are used to provide online cricket instruction for numerous other citizens and coaching institutes.
All cricketing operations in the world remain suspended owing to the novel epidemic of coronavirus which has taken more than 200 lives in the country and 100000 in the world so far.
