Surat: Arya Desai will play IPL for KKR
Surat’s 20-year-old left-handed batsman Arya Desai has entered the IPL. The KKR team has kept Arya a base price of 20 lakhs. Arya is 6.3 feet tall and is a hard hitting batsman as well as a spin bowler. Arya Desai scored 991 runs in 13 matches in Under-25 cricket this year at an average of 66, including 4 centuries. Because of which he got the IPL cap. Arya Desai is the first player from Surat to be selected in IPL from Surat. He has also been the captain of Under-19 Gujarat.
Surat’s first player to be selected in IPL
Arya Desai’s father Apoorva Desai is also the coach of the Indian Under-19 women’s team. He said, Apoorva has been playing cricket for the last 10 years. Initially he used to take coaching from me but since last 5 years I am not living in Surat so local coach and GCA have cooperated a lot to reach here.
He is also the coach of the Indian Under-19 women’s team.
He is a very dedicated player. Be it Diwali, Holi or Navratri, he never misses a single day of training. Practicing for more than 5 hours daily. He is so strict about fitness and diet that he has not even eaten sweets for the last 5 years. He used to practice in different states to understand different conditions and pitches.
Arya, who always motivates himself, signed the contract on Friday
When the Kolkata team called for the trial, Arya was there for the last 3 days. The contract was given after the trial was good. Apart from cricket, he is also interested in music. Arya believes that whether he gets selected or not, performs well or not, he keeps trying to better himself every day. He is never satisfied with what he does and goes on preparing for what else can be done.
Father Apoorva Desai said that Arya has the best trainers and coaches in India and he is ready to make the most of it. Talking about his motivation, in today’s time there is no better motivation than Virat Kohli. But there cannot be one motivation, someone’s dedication, someone’s aggression and someone’s technique are all different, so there are different motivations for different things.
