“JCA, Helping Hands Pakistan & Houston Karachi Sister City Association collaborating to launch a long-term cricketer’s development program”

Background: Pakistan is a country of youths with exceptionally large pool of talent in every field, one of them is sports. Cricket can be taken as a professional career by men and women alike. Cricket is not only monetarily beneficial but also builds individual characters, behaviors and teaches ethics for life. Cricket being lovable yet relatively expansive game to play is almost out of reach of boys and girls of underprivileged areas of Pakistan and thus a lot of talent got wasted.

Program Summary: “JCA, Helping Hands Pakistan & Houston Karachi Sister City Association collaborating to launch a long-term cricketer’s development program. The program will be available for boys and girls of14 -16 age groups selected by a team of professionals conducting talent hunt activity in underprivileged areas of Karachi. Following are the core objectives of the program:

• Develop physical, mental, and behavioral strengths during cricket coaching ∙ Coach and train the selected lot for cricketing skills and game techniques.
• Monitor and record progress of trainees and improve at least 20% of the lot to be a junior level regional / provincial level player.
• During the program, trainees will also be exposed to values like ethics for life, good moral character, discipline, benefits of hard work, progressive and positive thinking and many other skills that require being successful in life. 3 Program Scope

1. Location Karachi
2. Focused Areas Korangi, Landhi (initial focus)
3. Duration 3 years
4. Age Bracket 13 – 15 (Boys & Girls)
5. Lot Size 40 (Boys & Girls)
6. Training Venues JCA nets Korangi (Base camp ), other sporting facilities, Karachi ∙ Total Sessions 130 / year
7. Duration 3 hours per session
8. Program Executor Jalaluddin Cricket Academy
9. Program Sponsor Helping Hands Pakistan High Level Requirement
10. Trail and Training venues (JCA nets and other training facilities i.e. Gyms, pools, cricket grounds)
11. Certified coaches and program Manager

Cricket and Training equipment’s Program Stages:

1. Fundamentals Stage: Basic athletic skills such as movement, positive attitude in a fun to learn environment.
2. Transformation Stage: Conversion of fundamental stage learning into cricket specific skills.
3. Specialization Stage: Such as batting, bowling, fielding and game awareness for competitiveness, performance and decision making.
4. Competition Stage: Organize competition matches for players to showcase their talent 4 Deliverables.

• Provide the young participants with overall athletic skills such as movement skills, positive attitude, and fun to learn environment.
• Convert athletic skills learned during fundamental phase into cricket specific skills.
• Enhance competitiveness, specialization such as batting, bowling, fielding and game awareness for performance and decision making.
• Passing on the game techniques and finer points through training and coaching sessions by experienced certified coaches.
• Organize competitions / matches against internal and external teams for players to showcase their talent.
• Expose participants to healthy physical activities, discipline, high morality, ethical values, benefits of teamwork and importance of quality in every aspect of life.