National Cricket Academy

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The National Cricket Academy located in Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore, Karnataka, India,[1] established in 2000 is a cricket facility of the Board of Control for Cricket in India for training young cricketers who are identified as having the potential to represent the Indian cricket team.

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[edit] Administration and coaches

The following is the information available on the leadership of the Academy.

Season Chairman Director Coaches
2000[1] Raj Singh Dungapur Hanumant Singh Vasu Paranjpe, Roger Binny
2001[2] Sunil Gavaskar Brijesh Patel Balwinder Sandhu (Chief coach)[3], K Jayantilal, Roger Binny
2002 Sunil Gavaskar Brijesh Patel
2003 Sunil Gavaskar Brijesh Patel Chandrakant Pandit, Venkatesh Prasad, Rajesh Kamath, Vaibhav Daga (Physio)[4]
2004 Sunil Gavaskar Brijesh Patel
2005[5] Sunil Gavaskar Shivlal Yadav Dinesh Nanavaty, Venkatesh Prasad, Raghuram Bhat, Sanath Kumar, S. Basu, Vijay Rathore (Physio)[6]
2006 Kapil Dev[7] Shivlal Yadav
2007 Ravi Shastri[8]

[edit] Indian cricketers from NCA

Season Players
2000[1] International Cricketers: Sridharan Sriram, Shiv Sundar Das, Mohammad Kaif, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Ramesh Powar, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ajay Ratra, Murali Karthik, Harbhajan Singh, Sarandeep Singh, Zaheer Khan, Tinu Yohanan

Domestic Cricketers: Nikhil Haldipur, Anshu Jain, Niraj Patel, Mihir Diwakar, Rohit Jelani, Anup Dave, Prashanth Chandra Menon, Saulabh Srivastav, Fazal Mohammed, Rakesh Patel

Replacements[9]: Manish Sharma, Nikhil Doru and Rakesh Dhruv
2001[2] International Cricketers: Gautam Gambhir,Ajay Ratra, L Balaji, Parthiv Patel, Deep Dasgupta

Domestic Cricketers: Vinayak Mane, Y Gnaneswara Rao, Ishan Ganda, Kashinath Khadkikar, Gaganinder Singh, Arindam Das, Arjun Yadav, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Raja Ali, Uday Karkera, Salil Yadav, Mulewa Dharmichand, Swapnil Hazare, Maninder Singh, Shalabh Srivastava
2002
2003
2004[4] International Cricketers: Robin Uthappa,Manoj Tiwari, Piyush Chawla , Rohit Sharma

Domestic Cricketers: Tanmay Srivastava, Salim Pathan, Mahesh Rawat, AG Pradeep, Ravikant Shukla, Gaurav Sharma, Uday Kaul, Pinal Shah, Shahbaz Nadeem, Avinash Vaidya, Shailendra Pandore, Ryan Ninan, Gaurav Dhiman, Abid Nabi, Jagrut Mehta, Umesh Karvi, Sayak Ghosh, Prem Prateek, Jalaj Saxena.

[edit] Controversies

  • Sunil Gavaskar was a member of the NCA committee in 2000 and resigned after criticism from NCA Chairperson Raj Singh Dungapur on his comments in a newspaper column that it was not correct for NCA trainees to get a tour match at the cost of local teams.[10]
  • 3 Cricketers in the inaugural batch - Murali Karthik, Harbhajan Singh and Nikhil Haldipur were released from the academy citing indiscipline.[9]
  • In August 2007, Kapil Dev is removed from Chairmanship of the NCA a day after he addressed a press conference about BCCI's rival Indian Cricket League.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c NCA Inaugurated. The Hindu (2000-05-02). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  2. ^ a b NCA to open five zonal academies. Cricinfo (2001-04-30). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  3. ^ Balwinder Sandhu to be NCA's Head Coach. The Hindu (2001-03-08). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  4. ^ a b NCA camp from today. The Hindu. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  5. ^ NCA appointments. The Hindu (2005-12-05). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  6. ^ NCA training season from May 1. The Hindu. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  7. ^ 2006/08 Selection Committee Announcement. Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
  8. ^ "Ravi Shastri appointed NCA chairman", Cricinfo, 2007-09-28. 
  9. ^ a b Hanumant rules out return of trainees. Cricinfo (2000-07-28). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  10. ^ Raj singh is nothing without his chair: Gavaskar. Cricinfo (2000-12-23). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.