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MRF Pace Foundation set up in Madras

· Chetpet

MRF Limited set up a fast-bowling academy in Madras with the help of Australian bowler Dennis Lillee.

The MRF Pace Foundation was founded in Madras in 1987 by the tyre company MRF Limited, with the help of former Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee. The academy, based on the Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School campus at Chetpet, trains young fast bowlers from India and abroad. It helped develop several Indian and international pace bowlers in the following decades.

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