Cricket coach Baig felicitated in Hyderabad

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Hyderabad, TELANGANA :

HONOUR: Veteran coach Mirza Rahmatullah Baig was felicitated by Srujana Cultural & Literary Organisation recently
HONOUR: Veteran coach Mirza Rahmatullah Baig was felicitated by Srujana Cultural & Literary Organisation recently

Hyderabad:

Srujana Cultural & Literary Organisation honored former NIS and BCCI coach Mirza Rahmatullah Baig with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University as part of its annual Sports Excellence awards.

The award was presented by Hon Justice of High Court of Telangana T. Amarnath Goud, Dronacharya awardee S.M. Arif and Dr. Avula Majulatha, former Vice Chancellor, P.S. Telugu University.

The 79-year-old Baig served the Board of Cricket Control of India as South Zone coach while on deputation from the Sports Authority of India during the period 1977-1983. He has been coaching for last 50 years and still continues to actively coach to this day. He is a qualified curator and umpire as well.

Baig started coaching in 1963 when he was employed with the Indian Navy. Till date he has coached over 35 internationals and 150 first class cricketers. He was one of the coaches who were involved in training Team India players before the 1983 World Cup. As the BCCI coach some of the cricketers he has trained are Kapil Dev, Md. Azharuddin, Venkatapathi Raju, Kirti Azad, Kiran More, M.S.K. Prasad, Ashish Kapoor, Sanjay Manjrekar, Raman Lamba, Ravi Shastri, Chandrakant Pandit, W.V. Raman, L. Sivaramakrishnan, Sadanand Vishwanath, Arshad Ayub, Bharath Arun, Lalchand Rajput, Navjyot Singh Sidhu, to name some. Cricketers such as VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Robin Uthappa have sought his advise and expertise in the recent past.

There were also three categories of awards – Lifetime Achievement Award, Sports Excellence awards and Young Achievers. In sports excellence coaches such as P.G. Palguna (Football), V. Venkateshwara Rao (Rowing), K. Daniel (Cricket), Ramesh Goud (Karate), S. Swarnalatha (Gymnastics), B. Kameshwara Rao (Hockey), T. Jyotishwar (Kabaddi), Jitender Gupta (Roller Skating), Sandeep Kumar (Shooting were honored.

Shekhar Goud received a special award for adventure sports. Young achievers included Soumya (National football team captain), Nireekshan Reddy (kabaddi), Bhanu Prakash (shooting), Vishal Jadhav (gymnastics), T. Sunil (Rowing), Aryan Karra (Roller skating), T. Tarun Tej (Roller skating), Ameesha Mannut (Karate) and Preethi Gonda (Karate).

source: http://www.telanganatoday.com / Telangana Today / Home> Sport> Cricket / by Telangana Today / April 08th, 2019