Reebok launches Rajasthan Royal's T20 nation-wide talent hunt

India’s one of the largest sportswear brand Reebok announced the launching of Reebok Cricket Star Twenty20, a nationwide talent hunt to discover the most promising young cricketer of India here on Tuesday.

Cricketing legend Greg Chappell will judge the selection trials of Reebok Cricket Star Twenty20 talent hunt programme that will be conducted across the eight IPL cities.

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The proud and lucky winner of the Reebok Cricket Star Twenty20 will be rewarded a contract with the Rajasthan Royals, the Indian Premier League Cricket team.

The contestants of the Reebok Cricket Star Twenty20 talent hunt will be tested for their cricketing abilities by the expert eyes of Greg Chappell. The selected contestants from each city will attend a 10-day camp at Jaipur where they will go through rigorous training on Twenty20 format and will compete with each other to emerge as the next Reebok Cricket Star.

The countrywide talent hunt is expected to attract thousands of young upcoming cricketers. This initiative will surely provide a fitting platform for aspiring cricketers across the India to showcase their cricketing abilities and to be like cricketing stars.

Players like Ishant Sharma and Rohit Sharma who have gained popularity have been with Reebok for the last 3 years. Reebok also has 4 out of playing 11 members of the U-19 World Cup winning team as their Brand ambassadors.

Speaking on the occasion, Managing Director, Reebok, Subhinder Singh Prem, said, “The association is our way of bringing alive the vision of our brand fulfilling potential. As a performance brand we have a rich legacy in cricket since our inception in 1995 our sports heritage has grown from strength to strength. Since then.”

We are equipped to take new initiatives in this field, to encourage people to pursue sports and fitness and we hope that Reebok Cricket Star Twenty20 will send a message to all that Sports is not a faction of the elitist but a measure of talent, hard work and determination and Reebok as a brand is there to support anyone who has these in abundance measures,” Subhinder Singh added.

Reebok strongly supports domestic cricket and is the only brand to be associated with the UP and Delhi Ranji teams. At the felicitation ceremony done by Reebok for the T20 world cup champions, MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh, the key architects of this win shared with media about Reebok’s support towards players citing their own personal examples.