National Cricket Academy
Encyclopedia
The National Cricket Academy located in Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore
, Karnataka
in India
, 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
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Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, established in 2000 is a cricket facility of the Board of Control for Cricket in India
Board of Control for Cricket in India
The Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered at Mumbai, is the national governing body for all cricket in India. It's not the apex governing body in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as BCCI replaced Calcutta Cricket Club. BCCI is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu...
(BCCI) for training young cricketers who are identified as having the potential to represent the Indian cricket team
Indian cricket team
The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
. The NCA was the brainchild of cricket administrator and former BCCI President Raj Singh Dungarpur
Raj Singh Dungarpur
Raj Singh Dungarpur was a former president of Board of Control for Cricket in India. He played first class cricket for 16 years and was in and out of the Board of Control for more than 20 years. He was a selector of the national team for two terms...
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Administration and coaches
The following is the information available on the leadership of the Academy.| Season | Chairman | Director | Coaches | |
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| 2000 | Raj Singh Dungarpur Raj Singh Dungarpur Raj Singh Dungarpur was a former president of Board of Control for Cricket in India. He played first class cricket for 16 years and was in and out of the Board of Control for more than 20 years. He was a selector of the national team for two terms... |
Vasu Paranjpe, Roger Binny Roger Binny Roger Michael Humphrey Binny is an Indian former cricket all-rounder who is best known for his impressive bowling performance in the 1983 Cricket World Cup where he was the highest wicket-taker , and in the 1985 World Series Cricket Championship in Australia where he repeated this feat .Binny... |
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| 2001 | Sunil Gavaskar Sunil Gavaskar Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar is a former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any... |
Brijesh Patel Brijesh Patel Brijesh Patel grew up in Bangalore is an Indian cricketer who played for the Indian national cricket team as a right-handed batsman from 1974 until 1979.... |
Balwinder Sandhu Balwinder Sandhu Balwinder Singh Sandhu is a former Indian Test cricketer. He represented India in eight Test matches as a medium pace bowler who could swing the ball and was a useful batsman.... (Chief coach), K Jayantilal, Roger Binny |
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| 2002 | Sunil Gavaskar | Brijesh Patel | Bittu | |
| 2003 | Sunil Gavaskar | Brijesh Patel | Chandrakant Pandit Chandrakant Pandit Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit is a former Indian cricketer who played in 5 Tests and 36 ODIs from 1986 to 1992. After his retirement as a player, Pandit became a cricket coach, enjoying successful stints with the Mumbai cricket team.In the 1980s he was given the status of second wicketkeeper behind... , Venkatesh Prasad Venkatesh Prasad Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad is a former Indian cricketer. He is the bowling coach for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, having formerly performed the same role for the Indian cricket team from 2007 to 2009. He made his debut in 1996... , Rajesh Kamath, Vaibhav Daga (Physio) |
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| 2004 | Sunil Gavaskar | Brijesh Patel | ||
| 2005 | Sunil Gavaskar | Shivlal Yadav Shivlal Yadav Nandlal Shivlal Yadav is a former Indian cricketer who played in 35 Tests and 7 ODIs from 1979 to 1987.... |
Dinesh Nanavaty, Venkatesh Prasad, Raghuram Bhat, Sanath Kumar, S. Basu | |
| 2006 | Kapil Dev Kapil Dev Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj , better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup... |
Shivlal Yadav | ||
| 2007 | Ravi Shastri Ravi Shastri Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is a former Indian cricketer and captain. He was an all–rounder who batted right-handed and bowled left arm spin. His international career started when he was 18 years old and lasted for 12 years... |
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Indian cricketers from NCA
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| 2000 | International Cricketers: Sridharan Sriram Sridharan Sriram Sridharan Sriram is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. Currently, he plays in the Indian Premier League.... , Shiv Sundar Das Shiv Sundar Das Shiv Sunder Das is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman. In first class cricket, he plays for Orissa. Das was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore. He proceeded to make his Test debut later that year.Considered the answer to... , Mohammad Kaif, Gautam Gambhir Gautam Gambhir Gautam Gambhir is an Indian cricketer, a batsman. He has been a member of the Indian national cricket team since 2003 and 2004... , Yuvraj Singh Yuvraj Singh Yuvraj Singh Bhandal is an Indian cricketer, and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi movie star Yograj Singh. He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000 and played his first Test match in 2003. He was the vice captain of the ODI team from late-2007 to late-2008... , Ramesh Powar Ramesh Powar Ramesh Rajaram Powar is an Indian cricketer. He is an alumnus of Ruparel College of Science, Commerce and Arts in Matunga, Mumbai. He is a useful lower order batsman and off spinner who plays in the Indian ODI team... , Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ajay Ratra Ajay Ratra Ajay Ratra is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper.Ratra was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.... , Murali Karthik, Harbhajan Singh Harbhajan Singh Harbhajan Singh Plaha , commonly known as Harbhajan Singh, is an Indian cricketer. A specialist bowler, he has the second-highest number of Test wickets by an off spinner, behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan.... , Sarandeep Singh Sarandeep Singh Sarandeep Singh is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. In his debut Test match he took six wickets in Nagpur... , Zaheer Khan Zaheer Khan Zaheer Khan is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000. A left arm fast bowler considered as the best of the Indian fast bowling attack, Zaheer is known for his ability to swing the ball both ways, and as a batsman also holds the record for the highest Test... , 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: Manish Sharma, Nikhil Doru and Rakesh Dhruv |
| 2001 | International Cricketers: Gautam Gambhir,Ajay Ratra, L Balaji, Parthiv Patel Parthiv Patel Parthiv Ajay Patel is an Indian cricketer, wicketkeeper-batsman, and a member of the Indian national cricket team. He is a left-handed batsman. He got married in 2008 to Avni Zaveri.- ODI career :... , Deep Dasgupta Deep Dasgupta Deep Dasgupta is an Indian cricketer who played in 8 Tests and 5 ODIs from 2001 to 2002 as the national wicketkeeper... Domestic Cricketers: Vinayak Mane, Y Gnaneswara Rao, Ishan Ganda, Kashinath Khadkikar, Gaganinder Singh, Arindam Das, Arjun Yadav, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan is an Indian cricketer. He is the son of cricketer Venkatraman Sivaramakrishnan and nephew of Venkatraman Ramnarayan. Vidyut has a sibling, Nikhil. Vidyut is married to Ms.Sharanya and lives in Chennai, India.... , Raja Ali, Uday Karkera, Salil Yadav, Mulewa Dharmichand, Swapnil Hazare, Maninder Singh, Shalabh Srivastava |
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| 2004 | International Cricketers: Robin Uthappa Robin Uthappa Robin Venu Uthappa is an Indian cricketer. His father is Venu Uthappa, an international hockey referee from Kodagu, Karnataka, mother Roselyn is a home maker and hails from Kozhikode, Kerala and his sister Sharon is a business owner. He studied at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore... , Manoj Tiwari, Piyush Chawla Piyush Chawla Piyush Pramod Chawla is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India U-19 team and the Central Zone. His Hometown is Moradabad,. He is seen as a leg-spinning allrounder in domestic cricket, but has not fired as a batsman in the One Day International format... , Rohit Sharma Rohit Sharma Rohit Gurunath Sharma[ Marathi : रोहित गुरुनाथ शर्मा Telugu: రోహిత్ గురునాథ్ శర్మ] is an Indian cricketer. Sharma is a right-handed middle-order batsman and occasional right-arm offbreak bowler. Having started his international playing career at the age of 20, Sharma quickly exhibited his... Domestic Cricketers: Tanmay Srivastava Tanmay Srivastava Tanmay Manoj Srivastava , in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is an Indian cricketer. Srivastava was a member of the Indian U-19 cricket team that won the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup tournament played in Malaysia. In first-class cricket, he represents Uttar Pradesh. He was the leading run scorer for India in... , Salim Pathan, Mahesh Rawat Mahesh Rawat Mahesh Rawat is an Indian cricketer who is part of Railways cricket team, and presently part of the Rajasthan Royals team in Indian Premier League.He is an alumnus of National Cricket Academy, Bangalore.-External links:... , AG Pradeep, Ravikant Shukla, Gaurav Sharma, Uday Kaul, Pinal Shah Pinal Shah Pinal Shah has been selected as the wicket-keeper for India U19s World Cup squad. He is an able batsman and has played five first-class matches for Baroda scoring 377 runs, including a blistering 217* against Services in early 2006... , 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.
- 3 Cricketers in the inaugural batch - Murali Karthik, Harbhajan Singh and Nikhil Haldipur were released from the academy citing indiscipline.
- In August 2007, Kapil DevKapil DevKapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj , better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup...
was removed from Chairmanship of the NCA a day after he addressed a press conference about BCCI's rival Indian Cricket LeagueIndian Cricket LeagueThe Indian Cricket League was a private cricket league funded by Zee Entertainment Enterprises that operated between 2007 and 2009 in India...
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