Saturday, August 2, 2008

Anti-doping session at ICL training camp

The Indian Cricket League (ICL)'s ongoing training camp at Bangalore has been witnessing the modern game's nuances being taken to newer heights with pathology giants SRL Ranbaxy conducting extensive anti-doping tests.
The camp, while focusing on extreme health and fitness training, under the astute guidance of Jock Campbell-High Performance Director, ICL has seen in the last seven days, there are also 68 exciting and budding talents of Indian cricket who are trying to outdo each other as the fittest player.
Speaking on the occasion, Kiran More, the Executive Board Member of the ICL said, "For the first time in the history of Indian cricket, specialists like throwing coach (Mathew James Buckley) and sprint coach (Zane Allan Campbell) have been roped in for a conditioning camp.
"Our vision has been to promote healthy fitter cricketers and therefore at the camp, we have invited SRL Ranbaxy to educate our players with the anti-doping guidelines as well as to conduct comprehensive tests under their strict guidelines."
Explaining SRL Ranbaxy's association with ICL, their spokesperson added, "With ICL's strong focus on fair play and ethics on the cricket field, dope control is a major focus area and as an answer to their requirement in this regard, they have sought out SRL Ranbaxy to bring in the discipline of dope control. It has also proven its credentials in providing assistance and expertise to the Indian Olympic Association."
Summing up the meet, Jock Campbell-High Performance Director, ICL said, "It is of paramount importance for fitness & conditioning to be achieved by the players through fair and ethical means. We had already stated that one of the major activities at the camp would involve a detailed re-briefing, educating all the players on the international doping policy. It is important to update our boys on the pharmaceutical products that may, unwittingly, expose them to banned substances."
With 'healthy fitness' being the mantra of the on-going training camp, ICL's Season-2 will kick off later this year. This will give die-hard Indian cricket fans an exciting T-20 tournament played by high-performance, well-trained athletes.

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