The National Cricket Academy (NCA) is a cricket facility of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in Bengaluru, India, for the purpose of developing young cricketers who have been identified as having the potential to represent the Indian cricket team. It was established in 2000 and is located near to the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium[1] The facility is also used for the rehabilitation of injured players.[2]
| Abbreviation | NCA |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Raj Singh Dungarpur |
| Type | Cricket academy |
| Legal status | foundation |
| Focus | Player development |
| Location | |
| Services | Training, guidance, rehabilitation |
Director | VVS Laxman |
Parent organization | BCCI |
Former cricketer VVS Laxman is the director of the NCA.
Activities
The NCA has collaborated with the MRF Pace Foundation to train fast bowlers from across the country.[3]
The facility also works as a rehabilitation centre for injured members of India's cricket team. Ravi Shastri, in comments about frequently injured cricketers, sarcastically called some players "permanent residents of NCA", which he said was "not a good thing at all".[4] As of July 2023[update], Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, and Rishabh Pant were admitted to the centre.[5]
History
The NCA was the brainchild of cricket administrator and former BCCI President Raj Singh Dungarpur.[6]
In 2000, NCA member and adviser Sunil Gavaskar argued that the NCA team should not have played the visiting Zimbabwe team, saying "I thought it was unfair on the performers who were not given a chance to play first class matches against touring sides".[7] In response, NCA chair Raj Singh Dungarpur said, "Such people should either resign from the committee, or take it on, or fall in line."[7] Gavaskar resigned as NCA committee member.[7][8]
In 2014, BCCI collaborated with Cricket Australia and the ECB to get expert opinions on the creation of its new structure.
On 16 February 2022, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah announced the construction of a new NCA facility at near the Bangalore airport. Plans included three cricket grounds, a gymnasium, 40 practice pitches, a swimming pool, and rooms for upcoming players.[9]
Administration
| Season | Chair | Director | Coaches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000[1] | Raj Singh Dungarpur | Vasu Paranjpe, Roger Binny | |
| 2001[10] | Sunil Gavaskar | Brijesh Patel | Balwinder Sandhu (Chief coach),[11] K Jayantilal, Roger Binny |
| 2002 | Bittu | ||
| 2003 | Chandrakant Pandit, Venkatesh Prasad, Rajesh Kamath, Vaibhav Daga (Physio)[12] | ||
| 2004 | |||
| 2005[13] | Shivlal Yadav | Dinesh Nanavaty, Venkatesh Prasad, Raghuram Bhat, Sanath Kumar, S. Basu[14] | |
| 2006 | Kapil Dev[15] | ||
| 2007 | Ravi Shastri[16] | ||
| 2008–2010 | Dav Whatmore | ||
| 2010–2012 | Anil Kumble[17] | Sandeep Patil | |
| 2014–2019 | Brijesh Patel[18] | Dr.Kinjal Suratwala (Head, Sports Science & Coach Education), Bharat Arun (Head, Bowling Unit), Dinesh Nanavaty (Head, Batting Unit), V Venkataram (bowling coach), R Sridhar (fielding coach) | |
| 2019–2021 | Rahul Dravid | ||
| 2021 | VVS Laxman[19] |
Indian cricketers from NCA
2012
- International: Sridharan Sriram, Shiv Sunder 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[1]
- Domestic: Nikhil Haldipur, Anshu Jain, Niraj Patel, Mihir Diwakar, Rohit Jelani, Anup Dave, Prashanth Chandra Menon, Salabh Srivastav, Fazal Mohammied, Rakesh Patel[1]
- Replacements: Manish Sharma, Nikhil Doru and Rakesh Dhruv[20]
2013
- International: Gautam Gambhir, Ajay Ratra, L Balaji, Parthiv Patel, Deep Dasgupta
- Domestic: Piyush Arya, 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
2018
- International: Robin Uthappa, Manoj Tiwary, Piyush Chawla, Rohit Sharma
- Domestic: Piyush Arya, Tanmay Srivastava, Salim Pathan, Mahesh Rawat, AG Pradeep, Abhishek Nayar, Gaurav Sharma, Uday Kaul, Pinal Shah, Shahbaz Nadeem, Avinash Vaidya, Shailendra Pandore, Ryan Ninan, Gaurav Dhiman,Tushar Alakh, Abid Nabi, Jagrut Mehta, Umesh Karvi, Sayak Ghosh, Prem Prateek, Sanskar Joshi, Jalaj Saxena
[21]==Border-Gavaskar Scholarship ==
NCA awards a scholarship to three promising players to visit Australia's Centre of Excellence in Brisbane. The scholarship is named after the legendary Australian and Indian captains, Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar, who both scored more than 10,000 runs in Test cricket.
2000
- Mohammad Kaif
- Sridaran Sriram
- Shiv Sunder Das
2001
2002
2003
- Raiphi Vincent Gomez
- Udit Brijesh Patel
- Siddharth Trivedi
2004
2005
- Shaurya Prakash
- RP Singh
- Faiz Fazal
2006
2007
- DB Ravi Teja
- Cheteshwar Pujara
- Shailendra Pandore
2008
2009
- Kiran N. S.
- K. L. Rahul
- Mayank Agarwal
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