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Monday, June 18, 2018

BCCI open to shifting National Cricket Academy from Bengaluru
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The National Cricket Academy located in Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore, Karnataka in India.

The NCA was the brainchild of cricket administrator and former BCCI President Raj Singh Dungarpur.

Academy was established in 2000 is a cricket facility of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for training young cricketers who are identified as having the potential to represent the Indian cricket team.

In 2014, BCCI will tie-up with the both Cricket Australia and the ECB to get experts in for helping draw the new structure.

BCCI has decided to put in place a new structure on the lines of the state-of-the-art high performance centres based in Australia and England as part of the revamp of the National Cricket Academy.

In the new plan the NCA will have a tie-up with the MRF Pace Foundation to train the fast bowlers from across the country.


Video National Cricket Academy



Administration and coaches

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


Maps National Cricket Academy



Indian cricketers from NCA


Pakistan under-17 players attended a lecture on Anti-Corruption at ...
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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.
  • 3 Cricketers in the inaugural batch - Murali Karthik, Harbhajan Singh and Nikhil Haldipur were released from the academy citing indiscipline.

PitchVision
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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
  • Shiv Sunder Das
  • Anupam Yadav

2001

  • Deepak Chougule
  • Parthiv Patel
  • Vinayak Mane

2002

  • shaurya prakash singh
  • Lakshmipathy Balaji
  • Thilak Naidu

2003

  • Siddharth Trivedi
  • Udit Patel
  • Raiphi Gomez

2004

  • Shikhar Dhawan
  • Suresh Raina
  • Venugopal Rao

2005

  • shaurya prakash
  • RP Singh
  • Faiz Fazal

2006

  • Kshernal Waingankar
  • Gaurav Dhiman
  • Pinal Shah

2007

  • DB Ravi Teja
  • Cheteshwar Pujara
  • shailendra pandore

2008

  • [[basil thampi



  • Pradeep Sangwan
  • Tanmay Srivastava

2009

  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar
  • Abhinav Mukund
  • Jitendra Patil

2016

  • Mandeep Singh
  • Harpreet Singh

2017

  • Aviraj Patil

National Cricket Performance Centre - Wikipedia
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References

Source of article : Wikipedia