India’s biggest talent hunt for cricketers comes to Mangaluru

Media Release
December 22, 2018

Mangaluru, Dec 22: After hugely successful trials of the Biggest Talent Hunt for aspiring cricketers in Hyderabad, Pune and Jammu, the Magpie Sports Group, one of India's leading sports management companies based in Delhi, now comes to Mangaluru in search ofpotential cricketers (in the age group of 12-25 years).

The trial will be monitored by former top Indian cricketer Abhijit Vasant Kale at the St Aloysius College, Hampankatta on Thursday (27 December 2018).

Hundreds of cricket aspirants took part in India' biggest talent hunt in the earlier trails were vetted, screened and those shortlisted have been graduated for the next level to be held in Chandigarh shortly.

As Manish Chaudhary, chairman of Magpie Group rightly says, "India is an ocean of cricketing talent but with limited opportunities to get exposure overseas. That is why a majority of budding as well as aspiring Indian cricketers face hurdles in this not-good-enough circumstances," adding, "We want to provide a dynamic platform to get this much needed exposure at an early stage through this talent hunt, so that going forward they can become truly world-class cricketers."

The shortlisted players will take part in the five-day talent hunt to be conducted at the Tau Devi Lal Cricket Stadium in Chandigarh under the watchful eyes of who's who of international biggies like Albie Morkel and Herschel' Gibbs from South Africa; Owais Shah and Matthew Hoggard from England; and Kyle Mills from New Zealand to select the Top 48 talented cricketers.

These Top 48 cricketers — 16 in each batch — will go on a training tour to England, South Africa and New Zealand where they will get a chance to train with a reputed club or academy for a month. This shall give them an opportunity to be signed by a club in the respective country based on their performance during the tour.

The entire expenses for this tour will be paid in the form of scholarship by Magpie Sports Group.

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December 15,2025

Mangaluru police have arrested a 27-year-old NRI on his return from Saudi Arabia in connection with an Instagram post allegedly containing derogatory and provocative remarks about the Hindu religion, officials said on Monday.

The accused, Abdul Khader Nehad, a resident of Ulaibettu in Mangaluru, was working in Saudi Arabia when the post was uploaded, police said.

A suo motu case was registered at the Bajpe police station on October 11 after an allegedly offensive post circulated from the Instagram account ‘team_sdpi_2025’. Police said the content was flagged for being provocative and derogatory in nature.

During the investigation, technical analysis traced the Instagram post to Nehad, who was residing abroad at the time, a senior police officer said. Based on these findings, a Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued against him.

On December 14, Nehad arrived from Saudi Arabia at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, where he was taken into custody on arrival. Police said further investigation is underway.

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