The novel COVID-19 or coronavirus has stopped the daily busy life worldwide. Though it has affected the sports world too, including the cricket, as all the events have been postponed, the online cricket coaching programmes are getting popular these days. The veteran Indian cricketers, MS Dhoni and Ravichandran Ashwin, are trying to simplify the online cricket coaching programmes.
Most of the cricket matches have been postponed amid coronavirus outbreak. The coronavirus has also become a significant barrier to continue the coaching centres. However, the online cricket coaching programmes are now playing a vital role to help the cricketers to learn continuously in this pandemic period.
MS Dhoni’s cricket academy and Ravichandran Ashwin’s cricket academy are working hard to teach the players through online
According to the recent TOI report, the former Indian World Cup-winning captain MS Dhoni doesn’t directly involve in the online cricket coaching programme of his cricket academy – MS Dhoni Cricket Academy. But while his academy is providing the live classes on Facebook, Dhoni is giving crucial inputs to the coaches and also monitoring the developments.
On the other hand, the senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin’s cricket academy is also following the live classes through the online. Even Ashwin is also present in the live classes.
The online cricket coaching programmes are getting popular in the present situation. The former first-class cricketer Satrajit Lahiri, who is the chief coach of the MS Dhoni Cricket Academy, has told TOI that each video is attracting around 10000 views across all platforms.
Lahiri further added, “We have an app called Cricketor where we regularly upload demo drills. The trainees also need to upload their videos so that we can keep a tab on their activities. We give feedback accordingly.”
In these video training, the batsmen have to throw the balls continuously against a wall and bat with soft hands. According to Lahiri, it helps to solidify the defence along with improving the hand-eye coordination.
On the other hand, bowlers are learning various drills without releasing the ball. During this learning process, the bowlers are continuously monitoring of their bowling actions and loading-up positions.