User:Amarinder Bhinder/sandbox

Amarinder was born on 8th September 1980 in Gurdaspur, Punjab, India. Amarinder’s parents were teachers. He has one sibling who is a well-known psychiatrist in California. Amarinder went to St Thomas’ School, Jalandhar, India.

Amarinder was a member of the Punjab U16, Punjab U22 & Punjab Ranji Trophy Cricket Teams. Unfortunately, suffered a career ending injury at the age of 21 and his career came to a sudden end.

Following his recovery, Amarinder’s parents advised him to focus on his studies. Amarinder completed a Bachelor of Arts from DAV College Jalandhar. He then did a Bachelor of Physical Education from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, where he missed the Gold medal by only 4 marks.

On the completion of his studies Amarinder emigrated to South Africa. Here, he worked as a Professional Cricket Coach at St. David’s Marist College in Johannesburg. He become well-known and respected throughout the Johannesburg area for his cricket coaching. He worked with some world class cricketers, Temba Bavuma, the first black Test batsman from South Africa, being one of them.

Amarinder married Navdeep Sandhu from Patiala in 2010. The couple have two daughters. In 2018, the family left South Africa to seek new ventures in Canada.

In Canada, Amarinder coached Canada U19 in 2019 and after few months he was selected as the Canada National Cricket Coach.