National Cricket Academy

The National Cricket Academy located in Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore, Karnataka in India,^[1] 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. The NCA was the brainchild of cricket administrator and former BCCI President Raj Singh Dungarpur. ^[2]

Administration and coaches

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

Season	Chairman	Director	Coaches
2000[1]	Raj Singh Dungarpur	Vasu Paranjpe, Roger Binny
2001[3]	Sunil Gavaskar	Brijesh Patel	Balwinder Sandhu (Chief coach)[4], K Jayantilal, Roger Binny
2002	Sunil Gavaskar	Brijesh Patel	Bittu
2003	Sunil Gavaskar	Brijesh Patel	Chandrakant Pandit, Venkatesh Prasad, Rajesh Kamath, Vaibhav Daga (Physio)[5]
2004	Sunil Gavaskar	Brijesh Patel
2005[6]	Sunil Gavaskar	Shivlal Yadav	Dinesh Nanavaty, Venkatesh Prasad, Raghuram Bhat, Sanath Kumar, S. Basu[7]
2006	Kapil Dev[8]	Shivlal Yadav
2007	Ravi Shastri[9]

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[10]: Manish Sharma, Nikhil Doru and Rakesh Dhruv
2001[3]	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[5]	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.

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.^[11]

• 3 Cricketers in the inaugural batch - Murali Karthik, Harbhajan Singh and Nikhil Haldipur were released from the academy citing indiscipline.^[10]

• In August 2007, Kapil Dev was removed from Chairmanship of the NCA a day after he addressed a press conference about BCCI's rival Indian Cricket League.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "NCA Inaugurated". The Hindu. 2000-05-02. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/05/02/stories/07020281.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
2. ^ "His last words: Donald George Bradman". Daily News and Analysis. September 13, 2009. http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_his-last-words-donald-george-bradman_1289714. Retrieved March 11, 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "NCA to open five zonal academies". Cricinfo. 2001-04-30. http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/95717.html. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
4. ^ "Balwinder Sandhu to be NCA's Head Coach". The Hindu. 2001-03-08. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/03/08/stories/07080287.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "NCA camp from today". The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/07/01/stories/2004070101601800.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
6. ^ "NCA appointments". The Hindu. 2005-12-05. http://www.hindu.com/2005/12/05/stories/2005120507541800.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
7. ^ "NCA training season from May 1". The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/04/27/stories/2006042708692200.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
8. ^ "2006/08 Selection Committee Announcement". Cricinfo. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/260675.html. Retrieved 2007-03-14. 
9. ^ "Ravi Shastri appointed NCA chairman". Cricinfo. 2007-09-28. http://content-www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/312889.html. 
10. ^ ^{a b} "Hanumant rules out return of trainees". Cricinfo. 2000-07-28. http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/89959.html. Retrieved 2007-05-09. 
11. ^ "Raj singh is nothing without his chair: Gavaskar". Cricinfo. 2000-12-23. http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/86917.html. Retrieved 2007-05-09.