Ten years in the past, Gongadi Reddy needed to make a tough choice about closing his gymnasium and quitting his job as a health coach with ITC in his Bhadrachalam neighborhood within the then Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Andhra Pradesh. At stake was their solely baby, Gongdi Trisha’s dream of enjoying cricket.
Reddy, a former U-16 nationwide hockey participant, closed his gymnasium and offered 4 acres of land owned by him through the years to help his daughter’s coaching. On Sunday, the Hyderabadi teen scored a 24-run knock and stitched a 46-run partnership with Soumya Tiwary to assist India ladies’s under-19 group chase down a goal of 69 towards England under-19 ladies within the ICC last. Helped with the chase. Women’s Under-19 ICC T20 World Cup in South Africa.
“I performed within the state U-16 hockey group earlier than specializing in my health enterprise and job. I used to play cricket together with hockey and needed my baby to play cricket. While she initially performed in Bhadrachalam, we needed to take a choice to shift to Secunderabad to pursue her cricketing desires and I needed to promote our gymnasium to a relative of mine at 50 per cent lower than the market price. Later I additionally offered my 4 aces farm to help the coaching. It is Trisha’s ardour to see her assist India win the Under-19 World Cup and I can bear any loss for such a victory.
Trisha together with her mom Madhavi and father G Reddy. (Express picture)
Along with working at ITC and managing his gymnasium, Reddy and his spouse Madhavi have been blessed with Trisha in 2005. While Reddy would typically return dwelling late from his job and enterprise, he would be sure that Trisha, a younger baby, watched cricket matches on TV as an alternative. Cartoon Okay in his dwelling city of fifty,000. “When Trisha was born, I told my wife that when she starts watching TV, we will show her cricket matches on TV instead of cartoons. When she was two and a half years old, I started her playing with a plastic bat and ball. When she was five, I used to take her to the gym and throw more than 300 throwdowns in front of her. Later I got a cement pitch installed at a local ground in the town and spent my time coaching him there apart from my job and the gym,” recollects Reddy.
In 2012 Reddy made a video of Trisha batting within the nets and took the video to indicate it to educate John Manoj and Srinivas at St John’s Academy in Hyderabad.
Manoj, who was then the director of the academy, recollects Trisha’s earlier time on the academy. “When her father brought in Trisha’s batting videos to show us, we were impressed with her bat speed and hand-eye co-ordination. To have that much pace and coordination at the young age of seven was fantastic and Srinivas and I wanted him to become a good leg-spinner as well. Having technical knowledge of the game at such a young age meant she was ready to train as a leg-spinner and mimic Anil Kumble’s pace and leg-breaks,” says Manoj.
Within two years of relocating to Secunderabad, Trisha performed for the Hyderabad under-16 group within the inter-state match within the 2014–2015 season after which entered the under-19 and under-23 state facet the next 12 months and later Received. Chance in Under-19 Challenger Trophy
“After a while, we mentioned Trisha with Nushin Al Khadeer, who was the coach of the Hyderabad U-19 ladies’s group. She was additionally very impressed with him and would spend time coaching him. After a while, Indian fielding coach R Sridhar additionally joined our middle as a part of his teaching program and he ensured that Trisha grew as much as be a very good fielder,” says Manoj.
The Reddys are eagerly ready for his or her daughter and imagine the chance taken will set an instance for different households. “Trisha is our only child and we have decided that be it a boy or a girl, we will treat the child as our dearest treasure. My wife and I have always looked upon Trisha as a precious gem of our family. She loves drawing and will even bring us some sketches along with the cup,” says Reddy.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
