Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has hailed the work of Chintan, an Indian NGO chosen for America's first Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls, for eliminating child labour from recycling.
Chennai, Mon, Mar 08 2010 (PTI) - Indian skipper MS Dhoni feels the Indian Premier League acts as an ideal platform to find and groom talented young players, who may go on to play in the national team.
"I want to make more players for ourselves. We are grooming Indian players from under-19 or players on the verge of making debut for India. All those individuals rubbing their shoulders with international cricketers from India and overseas help them in learning cricketing skills," Dhoni said.
Citing an example, Dhoni said: "We had Manpreet Goni, Murali Vijay and S Badrinath coming into the side. And Suresh Raina is becoming a great player. We are contributing a lot towards Indian cricket."
"Overall, we are trying to groom the Indian cricketers for the betterment of the game in India," Dhoni, who leads Chennai Super Kings, said.
Dhoni said he was in favour of the current rule which restricts the number of overseas players in the team.
"If the overseas players want to find a place in the playing eleven, they have to fight among themselves and not against Indian stock. It is perfect right now and I am quite happy with the system of only four players finding place in the final eleven," he said.
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