In a country where cricket coaches have a perennial language problem when it comes to interpreting coaching lessons in English to budding cricketers from rural and suburban India, the national cricket Board is planning to break the barrier.

While the BCCI recently launched its very own cricket coaching manual, which was compiled by the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore, the administration could soon launch the coaching handbook in Hindi. The NCA’s sports science expert, Dr Kinjal Suratwala, who is one of the key contributors to the BCCI-NCA joint coaching manual, told The Indian Express today that by this year-end the Hindi version of the handbook will be made available to coaches all over India.

“To have our own official coaching manual is a wonderful thing. Having said that, the English version somehow can’t be accessible to the larger section of the country’s coaches and budding cricketers, since most of them hail from areas where language is the biggest factor. So, we are working on launching a Hindi version that solves the problem. The Hindi manual will reach a much wider section of cricketers and coaches,”

Dr Suratwala told this daily here on the sidelines of a Level ‘A’ refresher course at Eden Gardens today.

And if the Hindi handbook succeeds, then the Board and the NCA would explore other regional languages as well, says Dr Suratwala.

The Board’s first ever coaching manual was inaugurated by BCCI president Shashank Manohar yesterday at the Board’s technical committee meeting in Mumbai. The manual has technical lessons from a number of coaches including plenty of tips and tricks from NCA director Dav Whatmore. There are contributions from most coaches who are associated with the Bangalore-based academy.

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