Jaipur, Nov 16 (IANS) The Rajasthan Cricket Association’s (RCA) national cricket talent search academy, with former Indian team coach Greg Chappell at the helm, will be opened here Saturday.
Called Future Cricket Academy (FCA), the academy will unearth talent from all over India. Former Australia captain Chappell, who was the India coach till March, will train the chosen few at the academy housed at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium.
“All the paperwork is complete for the academy to be inaugurated,” Chappell told IANS here.
Chappell’s close friend and bio-mechanist Ian Frazer, who also worked with the Indian team with him, is assisting the master batsman at the academy.
Indian cricket board president Sharad Pawar had opened the RCA academy during the Champions Trophy last year.
An RCA official said that it was being opened again as the association had now got a sponsor, the Future Group of Mumbai.
When told that the academy was opened once before, Chappell smiled and chose to term it the academy’s “second coming”.
