ghaziabad in a pathbreaking initiative cricket legend madan lal one of the heroes of indian cricket teams epic victory in the 1983 world cup launched the delhi public school ghaziabad meerut roads sports centre of excellence on friday the coes focus will be to make scientific sports training available to students in the schools in the districtdpsg meerut road has pioneered scholastic excellence in schools and is now focused on imparting modern sports coaching and training to young studentathletes for their holistic growth encouraging physical activity and sports amongst the youththe coes focus initially will be to impart quality training in two most popular sports in the country cricket and football while training facilities for shooting basketball tennis and table tennis are also in the pipeline the coe for cricket will provide highperformance training under reputed cricket coach pradeep kocharkochar an exranji trophy player is known as the mentor and coach of yash dhull who led indias u19 team to victory in the world cup asia cup and is now part of an ipl team dpsg meerut road is also focussed on providing scientific training to as many girls as well as boys students at the coe for football given that the country is set to host the fifa u17 womens world cup for the first time in october speaking on this occasion madan lal said i extend my heartiest congratulations to dpsg meerut road and its principal sangeeta mukherjeeroy for being a visionary and setting up a centre of excellence for promotion of sports to benefit not just the students of her school but the students of other institutions as well sports and physical activities are an integral part of the education system sports is increasingly becoming popular in the country and initiatives like dpsgs coe will motivate more young people to take up sporting activities as a lifestyle while some will be driven to pursue excellence on the global stage i extend my best wishes to the team coaches and support staff of the dpsg meerut road sports centre of excellencespeaking on this occasion sangeeta mukherjeeroy said i thank the cricket legend and a hero of the 1983 world cup madan lal for launching the dpsg meerut road sports centre of excellence and motivating our students i am confident that the coe will inspire many young students especially girls to take up sports achieve their sporting goals and lead a healthy lifestyle