The PE teacher who has coached 30 district cricketers on a school ground

Ram Prakash Mishra has run a free evening cricket camp at a government school in Amrauli for 18 years. Three of his former students now play in the City Premier T20.

By Rohit Bhandari

AMRAULI · Published 14 October 2026 at 7:41 pm IST · 1 min read

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At 4:30 every afternoon, Ram Prakash Mishra unlocks a shed at the back of the government inter college in Amrauli and brings out two kitbags, a stack of plastic cones and a bucket of old leather balls. By five, about 50 children are on the ground.

Mishra, 56, has run this free evening cricket camp for 18 years. He estimates that about 30 of his former students have played district-level cricket, and three are now in City Premier T20 squads.

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