Aaqib Javed's bold plan to transform Pakistan's cricket academies

NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan pacer and caput manager Aaqib Javed has vowed to alteration the National Cricket Academy (NCA) successful Lahore into 1 of the astir productive academies successful satellite cricket. Aaqib, who took implicit arsenic manager of the NCA 2 months agone pursuing his stint arsenic interim caput manager of the nationalist teams, said helium aims to marque Pakistan’s academies a benchmark for different cricketing nations."We shouldn't person to look astatine different academies for guidance but make our ain strategy which different countries would look towards for guidance," helium said successful a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) podcast.

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Aaqib revealed that helium has acceptable a six-month timeline to instrumentality a structured strategy astatine the NCA and its determination branches successful Karachi, Multan, and Faisalabad."These academies should beryllium tally connected a strategy wherever we groom and nutrient prime players of each property groups for the nationalist teams and besides supply players with the champion rehabilitation facilities," said the erstwhile cricketer, who besides serves arsenic a nationalist selector.He noted that portion the NCA successful Lahore is well-equipped, it has lacked a genuinely effectual and productive strategy for years."We are besides trying to reconstruct the biomechanics instrumentality and laboratory backmost astatine the NCA aft it was outsourced by the committee and dedicate the academy successful Karachi lone for women's cricket," helium added.

Aaqib, who has antecedently coached the UAE nationalist squad and served arsenic Pakistan’s bowling coach, emphasized that his long-standing extremity has been to place and nurture endowment and to found a strategy that ensures academies relation efficiently, careless of changes successful PCB leadership.The NCA was established successful 2002–03 during the tenure of erstwhile PCB president Lt. General Tauqir Zia and was aboriginal renamed successful grant of the precocious Bob Woolmer, who served arsenic Pakistan’s caput manager for 4 years.