National Cricket Academy

National Cricket Academy
Abbreviation	NCA
Founded	2000; 25 years ago
Founder	Raj Singh Dungarpur
Type	Cricket academy
Legal status	foundation
Focus	Player development
Location	Bengaluru, India;
Services	Training, guidance, rehabilitation
Director	VVS Laxman
Parent organization	BCCI

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 the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium^[1] The facility is also used for the rehabilitation of injured players.^[2]

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.^[3]

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".^[4] As of July 2023^[update], Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, and Rishabh Pant were admitted to the center.^[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 thereon.^[7]^[8]

In 2014, BCCI collaborated with Cricket Australia (CA) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to get expert opinion 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 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]	Shivlal Yadav
2007	Ravi Shastri^[16]
2008–2010		Dav Whatmore
2010–2012	Anil Kumble^[17]	Sandeep Patil
2014–2019	Anil Kumble^[17]	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

Border-Gavaskar Scholarship^[21]

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

2004

2005

Shaurya Prakash
RP Singh
Faiz Fazal

2006

2007

DB Ravi Teja
Cheteshwar Pujara
Shailendra Pandore

2008

2009

References

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^ "BCCI signs five-year agreement with MRF Pace Foundation". BusinessLine. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
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[2] Staff, CricTracker (13 August 2021). "'Unhappy' NCA tightens rules, fitness clearance mandatory for injured Indian players". CricTracker. Retrieved 9 October 2022.

[:0-3] "BCCI signs five-year agreement with MRF Pace Foundation". BusinessLine. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2023.

[4] "'Some have become permanent residents of NCA': Ravi Shastri blasts players' injury management". The Times of India. 12 April 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 1 August 2023.

[5] "'No pace. Even kids playing him easily': Jasprit Bumrah's post-recovery speed questioned in fresh bowling video - Watch". Hindustan Times. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.

[rsd-6] "His last words: Donald George Bradman". Daily News and Analysis. 13 September 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2011.

[:1-7] "Raj singh is nothing without his chair: Gavaskar". ESPNcricinfo. 23 December 2000. Retrieved 9 May 2007.

[8] "Gavaskar at best, a reluctant administrator". Hindustan Times. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2023.

[9] "BCCI Plans NCA Contracts for Fresh Bowling Talent Both Men and Women". The Times of India. 16 February 2022.

[NCA2001-10] "NCA to open five zonal academies". ESPNcricinfo. 30 April 2001. Retrieved 9 May 2007.

[11] "Balwinder Sandhu to be NCA's Head Coach". The Hindu. 8 March 2001. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2007.

[2004NCA-12] "NCA camp from today". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2007.

[13] "NCA appointments". The Hindu. 5 December 2005. Archived from the original on 7 December 2005. Retrieved 9 May 2007.

[2006NCAU15-14] "NCA training season from May 1". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2007.

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[16] "Ravi Shastri appointed NCA chairman". ESPNcricinfo. 28 September 2007.

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