NCA trainees list increased
The National Cricket Academy (NCA) has added five players who were earlier selected in the juniors' list to the seniors list of trainees
AC Ganesh
10-May-2000
The National Cricket Academy (NCA) has added five players who were
earlier selected in the juniors' list to the seniors list of trainees.
Earlier 24 players had been selected for training at the Chinnaswamy
stadium in Bangalore. The five players added to the seniors are:
Swapnil Hazare, Nikhil Kulkarni (both Mumbai), Joginder Sharma
(Haryana), Nitin Agarwal (Delhi) and Mrityunjay Tripathi. A letter to
this effect have been sent by Academy Director Hanumant Singh to its
chairman Raj Singh Dungarpur. The five trainees have been asked to
report to Bangalore by May 14.
Hanumant Singh said "the camp will now concentrate on preparing the
seniors for two tournaments - Coromandel Cup in Bangalore and Buchi
Babu tournament at Chennai - to be held during August this year. The
tournaments have been preponed by a month this season."
Hanumant said "it will also be decided at a later date whether to
recall the seniors to the academy or ask them to disperse to prepare
for the next season after the two tournaments."
The camp for the seniors started on May 1 and the camp for the juniors
which was slated to commence from May 15 has been postponed by three
months and is likely to begin on September 1. The first semester for
junior trainees has been put off by a few months in order to enable
them to take advantage of the next likely visit to India by the
Academy's Australian consultant Rodney Marsh in September.
Former Indian player Hanumanth added that "during Marsh's visit in
September more attention could be paid to the junior group because, by
then, the senior group will have got accustomed to the new
methods/schedules and become more self-reliant."
The NCA was inaugurated on May 1 with Roger Binny and Vasu Paranjpe as
its coaches. It my be recalled that the former Australian wickerkeeper Rodney Marsh is the consultant of the academy. Marsh said he
would visit the academy five times a year to monitor the progress of
the the training programme.
The list of trainees who would benefit from the camp include Indian
players Murali Kartik, S Sriram, Md Kaif and Harbhajan Singh. The
chairman of NCA Raj Singh Dungarpur said, this was "the most ambitious
scheme that the BCCI, in its long history, has undertaken". The BCCI
has put in 1.5 crores during the first phase of the NCA's operations.