The National Cricket Academy (NCA) is a

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facility of the

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(BCCI) in

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, India, for the purpose of developing young cricketers who have been identified as having the potential to represent the

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. It was established in 2000 and is located near the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium The facility is also used for the rehabilitation of injured players. Former cricketer VVS Laxman is the present director of the NCA.

Activities

The NCA has collaborated with the MRF Pace Foundation to train fast bowlers from across the country. The facility also works as a rehabilitation center 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". , Jasprit Bumrah,

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, and Rishabh Pant were admitted to the center.

History

The NCA was the brainchild of cricket administrator and former BCCI President

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. In 2000, NCA member and adviser

Sunil Gavaskar Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, uniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ born 10 July 1949), is a former captain of the Indian national cricket team who represented India national cricket team, India and Mumbai crick ...

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". In response, NCA chair

said, "Such people should either resign from the committee, or take it on, or fall in line." Gavaskar resigned as NCA committee member thereon. In 2014, BCCI collaborated with

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(CA) and the

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(ECB) to get expert opinion on the creation of its new structure. On 16February 2022, BCCI president

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and secretary Jay Shah announced the construction of a new NCA facility near the

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. Plans included three

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s, a gymnasium, 40 practice pitches, a swimming pool and rooms for upcoming players.

Administration

Indian cricketers from NCA

2012

* International: Sridharan Sriram, Shiv Sunder Das, Mohammad Kaif, Gautam Gambhir,

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, Ramesh Powar, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ajay Ratra, Murali Karthik,

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, Sarandeep Singh, Zaheer Khan, Tinu Yohanan * Domestic: Nikhil Haldipur, Anshu Jain, Niraj Patel, Mihir Diwakar, Rohit Jelani, Anup Dave, Prashanth Chandra Menon, Salabh Srivastav, Fazal Mohammied, Rakesh Patel * Replacements: Manish Sharma, Nikhil Doru and Rakesh Dhruv

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:

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, Manoj Tiwary, Piyush Chawla,

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* 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

Border-Gavaskar Scholarship

Source: NCA awards a scholarship to three promising players to visit Australia's Centre of Excellence in

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. The scholarship is named after the legendary Australian and Indian captains,

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and

, who both scored more than 10,000 runs in Test cricket.

2000

* Mohammad Kaif * Sridaran Sriram * Shiv Sunder Das

2001

* Deepak Chougule * Parthiv Patel * Vinayak Mane

2002

* Lakshmipathy Balaji * Gautam Gambhir * Thilak Naidu

2003

* Raiphi Vincent Gomez * Udit Brijesh Patel * Siddharth Trivedi

2004

* Shikhar Dhawan * Suresh Raina * Venugopal Rao

2005

* Shaurya Prakash * RP Singh * Faiz Fazal

2006

* Kshemal Waingankar * Gaurav Dhiman * Pinal Shah

2007

* DB Ravi Teja * Cheteshwar Pujara * Shailendra Pandore

2008

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* Pradeep Sangwan * Tanmay Srivastava

2009

* Kiran N. S. * K. L. Rahul anmol dagar *

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References

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