Kolkata: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly on Thursday said a system will be created where head coach Ravi Shastri gets to spend more time at the National Cricket Academy (NCA).
Sourav had a long meeting with his former teammate Rahul Dravid, who is also the Director at NCA. The meeting between the two lasted for two hours at the NCA and was mostly involved about chalking out the roadmap ahead.
The BCCI has plans to transform NCA in Bengaluru into a state-of-the-art facility on the lines of Cricket Australia’s High-Performance Centre in Brisbane.
Ganguly, along with NCA officials, also visited the proposed land for building a new NCA facility near Bengaluru.
“We will create a system where Ravi’s involvement is more in the NCA till the time he is coach. Rahul (Dravid) is there, Paras Mhambrey ( India U-19 and A coach) is there. Bharat Arun (India bowling coach) goes. We will try and make it a good centre of excellence but actually NCA does a lot of work. When you go in there, you realise the hard work they put in,” he said.
On being asked about his meeting with Dravid , Ganguly said: “He (Dravid)is the head of NCA. He is one of the greats of the game. Basically I wanted to know about the functions of NCA. We are building a new NCA. It was a meeting for about two hours. I met him separately and wanted to find out what is the way forward. I think they do a lot of good work at the NCA.
The proposed NCA project should be adequate to accommodate three grounds, indoor nets, administrative buildings, and the residential complex. The allotted land is believed to be on a 99-year lease.