Structuring Indian cricket, European football style

Firstly, the high performance programme will or should ideally consist of three tiers: the Indian national team, the India 'A' squad, and the High Performance/Academy structure, with the country's top fifty-sixty players as a part of this setup. This is much like football clubs across Europe (the first team, reserves and the academy). Each individual unit will have close to 20 players each on full-time contracts with dedicated coaching and support staff. What this ensures is the automatic expansion of available bench strength to a minimum of 30 players, and a maximum of 60. The three primary objectives of the High Performance mechanism will be intake, exposure and evaluation.