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The month-long The Hindu FIC–ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AM/NS) India Cricket Summer Camp 2026, organised successful relation with the Visakhapatnam District Cricket Association (VDCA), concluded astatine the ACA-VDCA Stadium successful Visakhapatnam connected Sunday. More than 600 budding cricketers from crossed the city, including implicit 500 boys and much than 100 girls, completed the coaching programme.
The camp, held from May 2 astatine the VDCA B Ground, MCV Ground, Coromandel Ground and Steel Plant Ground, received astir 2,000 applications. A full of 36 coaches trained the selected participants. Participants assembled astatine the ACA-VDCA Stadium for the valedictory function, portion parents watched from the gallery. Certificates were distributed successful the beingness of representatives of The Hindu, AM/NS India and VDCA.
Addressing the gathering arsenic main guest, O. Naresh Kumar, Vice-President of the IT Park Association, Vizag, congratulated The Hindu, AM/NS India and VDCA for sustaining the programme implicit 3 decades and thanked the parents for encouraging their children to instrumentality up sport.
“Sports teaches intelligence strength. One time you deed a six, the adjacent time you are retired for a duck. It teaches you however to grip occurrence and failure,” Mr. Kumar said.
Emphasising that modern cricket demands much than method skill, helium urged youngsters to absorption connected carnal fitness, nutrition and intelligence toughness. He made a peculiar entreaty to miss cricketers to wage attraction to their health, noting that deficiencies successful haemoglobin, Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D were communal among young girls and could impact their sporting performance.
He besides called for greater concern successful sports infrastructure successful Visakhapatnam, stating the city’s accelerated maturation crossed sectors should beryllium matched by improved facilities for aspiring athletes.
D.S. Varma, Head – HR, Vizag Asset, AM/NS India, thanked the coaches and office-bearers for their efforts successful conducting the campy successfully. He highlighted VDCA’s publication to Indian cricket, noting that the relation had produced respective national-level cricketers and Ranji Trophy players.
Highlighting the bequest of the initiative, VDCA Secretary K. Parthasaradhi said the summertime coaching campy and The Hindu trophy had completed 30 years and said, “talented players identified during the programme would beryllium considered for year-long coaching camps opening successful July.”
Speaking connected the occasion, Sumit Bhattacharjee, Chief of Bureau, Andhra Pradesh, The Hindu, said the campy had go an important level for nurturing young endowment implicit the past 3 decades. “If you privation to execute greatness, what is needed is grit, determination and changeless practice,” helium said, portion advising the youngsters to support a equilibrium betwixt academics and sport.
VDCA Vice-Presidents D. Sanjeev, S.R.K. Prasad, N. Srinivasa Raju, VDCA Treasurer P. Bhogendra Babu, ACA crushed in-charge J.K.M. Raju, and Joint Secretary C.P. Reddy were present.
