Raise your game

Smashing Point Sports Academy: The Adani Sportsline-owned Gulf Giants, a franchise in the International League (IL) T20, have announced a partnership with two cricket training centres -- Swantons Cricket Academy and Smashing Point Sports Academy (SPSA) -Raise Your Game -- in Dubai, UAE. This is the first time that Adani Sportsline has collaborated with cricket academies in the Middle East.

Through this partnership, the Adani Sportsline aims to strengthen the Gulf Giants’ presence in the region by engaging with the players trained at the academies, their families, coaches, and other cricket enthusiasts. The collaboration will include exclusive branding and fan engagement activities, and player visits, and will create opportunities for promising athletes to participate in Gulf Giants’ practice sessions as net players.

Gulf Giants players, who are part of the ongoing ILT20 Season 3, visited the academies recently and interacted with the children. While English wicketkeeper-batter Ollie Robinson and the team’s batting coach Grant Flower visited SPSA, Namibian allrounder Gerhard Erasmus and coach Ottis Gibson spent time at the Swantons Cricket Academy.