On the 14th of April 2009 Cape Town- Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) players Kumar Sangakkara, along with Brett Lee, Indian bowler Sreesanth, Ranadeb Bose and the owner of the Kings XI Punjab Bollywood actress Priety Zinta were all in Nyanga at Nyanga cricket stadium to Launch the club’s mobile fan club with mig33. Over 40 kids from St Mary’s Primary and Liwa Primary school from Nyanga got the opportunity to meet the players and get some much appreciated cricketing coaching on their batting, bowling and fielding from the players. These children are part of our Sporting Chance development foundation sports programme. The squad is an after schools cricket programme that aims to provide young cricketers with the basic cricket skills in a structured environment that promotes sustainability and talent identification. Sporting Chance has placed one of their highly skilled coaches Lucky Tywaku in both of these schools and he runs the cricket program on a weekly basis with support from Sporting Chance.
“This is a massive opportunity for our young players to meet and be inspired by world renowned cricketers. Through the Sporting Chance development foundation sports programme and events like this we hope to encourage young players from the local community to actively participate in the sport.” says Brad Bing, managing director of Sporting Chance.
To end off the day one of the young boys in the program got chosen to attend KXIP’s inaugural match against the Delhi Daredevils in Cape Town on 19 April.
Any Kings XI Punjab fans can sign up to the Cricket FanZone by sending “KXIP” to 31273 or by downloading mig33 directly from their phone’s browser (m.mig33.com/kxip). mig33 works on over 2,000 different mobile phone models.
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from left to right: Brett Lee, Kumar Sangakkara, Priety Zinta,Sreesanth and Ranadeb Bose
