Training in progress
Tokyo Cement Group has extended the partnership with the Foundation of Goodness (FoG) for 2024 to continue the cricket coaching camps.
This is the ninth year of this partnership that provides aspiring young cricketers from rural areas with access to quality training facilities to improve their cricketing talents.
The Tokyo Cement-Foundation of Goodness Cricket Coaching Academy began in 2014 by setting up training facilities at Hikkaduwa Sri Sumangala MCC Lords and Seenigama Sri Wimalabuddhi Surrey Oval, two grounds with indoor and outdoor nets for cricket practices, under the patronage of the Tokyo Cement Group.
Managing Director, Tokyo Cement Company, S. R. Gnanam presents the 2024 Cricket Coaching Academy sponsorship to Founder/Chief Trustee, Foundation of Goodness, Kushil Gunasekera.
Director Sports of the Foundation of Goodness, Anura De Silva heads the Cricket Academy, which conducts monthly training sessions with professional coaching staff of the FoG, under the leadership of cricket coaches, Hemantha Devapriya and Susantha Karunarathna.
Promising young school cricketers are groomed by renowned coaches as well as local and international former cricket legends who contribute their expertise from time to time. Star performers identified through the project are enrolled in an elite players’ pool, where they receive specialised training.
The success of the Southern cricket camps encouraged Tokyo Cement to extend the program to the North in 2017, in search of future cricketing sensations.
The Academy has so far produced hundreds of outstanding schoolgirl and schoolboy cricketers who now play at divisional and national level.
