Chennai: Ten of the country’s brightest young leg-spinners and two from Bangladesh on Saturday commenced training at the MAC Spin Foundation here under the guidance of Terry Jenner, the former Australian leg-spinner and mentor of the world’s highest wicket-taker, Sharne Warne.
The training forms part of the MAC Spin Foundation’s programme which aims at recognising and nurturing quality spin bowlers in India catering to the abundant talent traditionally found here.
Jenner, who had played nine Tests for Australia between 1970 and 1975 had gone on record to say, “As a coach I break ‘GIFT’ down like this—G is for guidance, I is for information, F is for feel and T is for trust.”
With Jenner, who landed here on Friday night and had the first look of the boys in the morning session as the evening session was a truncated one due to rain, Peter Fernandez, a former Tamil Nadu Cricketer and now coach of the MAC Spin Academy, the only one in the country, told Cricketnext that “Jenner is communicative and with his lively method of teaching the boys have adjusted to him well enough. The trainees, most of them in the age group of 13 to 17, have said that it is interesting to listen to Jenner.”
“Jenner keeps his methods of training rather simple and not complicated. The boys must be lucky to learn from this famous Aussie, who is very knowledgeable in the art of spin bowling and the first day in office for Jenner was to assess the boys,” Fernandez added.
“He has almost assessed each boy. Jenner has told me that the boys seem to be keen and are very good talents. This is the right age to teach them about the importance of giving more air to the ball and the parabola and the arc that is required for a spin bowler,” Fernandez said.
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