BCCI's academy in Bangalore from May 2000

The long awaited Cricket Academy to be run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in Bangalore is slowly taking shape and everything points to a formal start in May next year. Former BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur is the chairman of the Special Committee which was formed to go into various aspects of the academy.

The Special Committee, it is learnt, will adopt some of the salient features of the South African Cricket Academy and the Australian Cricket Academy, based in Adelaide. The Special Committee for the academy met in Mumbai last week and took fresh stock of the progress made on what has become the BCCI's pet project.