Mumbai: Ace cricketer Dilip Vengsarkar, who has been coaching youngsters and preparing them to be future cricket stars since 1994 under the name of Elf 
Vengsarkar Academy, has gone one step further to reach out to the millions of cricket enthusiasts all over by launching his website in collaboration with a with RelTime, a Norwegian organisation.
Dilip Vengsarkar’s career had been overshadowed by giants like Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev. Even after retirement, Vengsarkar, despite his immense contribution as a coach over the past two decades, was almost never brought to the forefront despite his contribution to Indian cricket. The Vengsarkar Academy (previously funded by Elf) has launched a first-of-its-kind website in collaboration with RelTime. Abhishek Mukherjee explores the novelty of the website and the possibilities it can offer.
There have been Indian cricket greats who have given back to the sport to various extents; while the likes of Ravi Shastri and Sourav Ganguly have taken up the microphone, Rusi Modi and Aakash Chopra have used the pen; Sunil Gavaskar has done both, Kapil Dev had helped found a cricket league, while TA Sekhar, Sanjay Bangar and many others have taken to coaching.
During this period, Dilip Vengsarkar has been running a cricket academy, which is all most people know about him (barring his stint as the national selector). The Elf Vengsarkar Academy had started in the Oval Maidan in 1994, and has now spread to Mahul and Pune, attends every site multiple times a week, and is approachable to every student across branches. Almost all this has happened away from the media.
Over the years, the Academy has helped hone the talents of Ajit Agarkar (who had arrived as an opening batsman), Yuvraj Singh, Ramesh Powar, and Manan Vohra, along with several other domestic and Under-19 cricketers. Agarkar mentioned that the Academy has the best pitch across all grounds he has bowled on in Mumbai, while Robin Uthappa spoke about the excellent facilities at the ground.
Vengsarkar, however, has not stopped at that. In a collaboration with RelTime, a Norwegian (yes, you have read it right) organisation, Vengsarkar Academy has launched its official website in a function at Cricket Club of India (CCI) in the presence of the likes of Agarkar, Chandrakant Pandit, Praveen Amre, Raju Kulkarni, Sairaj Bahutule, Nilesh Kulkarni, Uthappa, Ajinkya Rahane, Dhanraj Pillay, and the man himself.
Source : Lokesh Shastri