Delhi boys to train in London

Jun 06, 2013 - Age Correspondent

Vikas Dixit

Delhi teenagers Vikas Dixit and Shivam Chauhan along with Pranjal Puri from Indore have been selected for a specially organised 25-day camp to train under former Somerset cricketer Thomas Webley at the Merchant Taylors’ School in England.

The school is well-known in the English cricketing fraternity and offers world-class facilities in cricket coaching.
The trio were chosen among 12,000 young players, who participated in the eight-month long Coca-Cola Cricket Cup school tournament.
The selections were made at the end of the three-match series where the Coca-Cola XI played against Sri Lanka’s Under-17 in Colombo. Dixit, Chauhan and Puri outperformed 12 others from their team to earn this opportunity.
All-rounder Dixit, best known for his match-saving century against the Sri Lanka U-17, is a student of Salwan Boys High School in the capital.
Representing LB Shastri Cricket Club, he recently claimed all 10 wickets in the DDCA senior division league match. Chauhan, who is from the same school as Dixit, represented Haryana in the Vijay Merchant Trophy in 2011 and was the highest scorer for his team.
Puri is a product of the Residential Cricket Academy in Madhya Pradesh, and came into the spotlight after some brilliant economy rates in the Coca-Cola Cricket Cup.
The three will leave for England on Sunday and are scheduled to return on July 5.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/235370" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-7cb6638d73bd0cd91606d793ccc90f17" value="form-7cb6638d73bd0cd91606d793ccc90f17" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="87939771" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>