00:00It's vacation time for school children and these youngsters made the most of it on a
00:05hot Monday morning by playing cricket.
00:07This as the launch of the Riyadh Emirate Coaching Academy took place at the Honeymoon Park in
00:11Tunapuna with a former TNT cricketer also present.
00:14For him this initiative meant a lot.
00:17I always wanted to give back to the community where I grew up and you know no better place
00:22than Honeymoon Park so today is just a day for giving back you know making the kids know
00:27that you know we the Riyadh Emirate Academy is it means something to them and you know
00:34we want to give back in many ways as we can and this is just a start of what we
00:39about to do.
00:40Having played international cricket and also coaching the title winning TNT side at this
00:45year's regional four day tournament this new project was another step in the right direction
00:50and it showed since Emirate derived great joy when seeing the children keeping active.
00:55I mean it's it's my passion you know cricket has always been my passion you know now I'm into
01:00coaching I have a very very big passion for coaching and I want to make sure that the kids enjoy
01:06and
01:06get the best possible coaching available so I have you know a few of my friends who are coaches as
01:11well Imran Khan, Aaron Alfred, Mikael Williams who's just a few who have been here today to assist in
01:18helping me get this off the ground.
01:21Andy made it clear that it wasn't a one-off thing after all he has a desire to see some
01:25of the younger ones going on to play at a higher level or even making it to the international stage.
01:30I want to I want to continue to do it you know every weekend I have to find the availability
01:35of
01:35the coaches most importantly because I want to make sure that when the kids come here they get the proper
01:40coaching and as well as my availability so it's going to be a little tricky but I want to get
01:45it off the
01:45ground and make sure that I'm here for the start of it and it's going to be a continuous thing
01:50in the
01:50near future.
01:51In due course the unassuming 45-year-old coach is hoping for an increase in participants
01:57knowing quite well everything takes its course. Vinod Nawani, Chiefs Export.
02:01Sir, you're saying, we've got fun, it's going to be a very peaceful.
02:02We're going to take the same program and we need to take a look at
02:02our first program is going to go.
