da dobrowin： The first National Cricket Academy (NCA)and Pakistan Junior Academy(PJA) were formally launched in a simple ceremony at the GaddafiStadium on Monday
15-May-2001The first National Cricket Academy (NCA)and Pakistan Junior Academy(PJA) were formally launched in a simple ceremony at the GaddafiStadium on Monday.Inthe NCA, 22 cricketers will learn the finer points of the game whilefor the Junior Academy 24 players have been selected. Former Testplayer Mohammad Ijaz Butt inaugurated the academies.Mohsin Kamal and Ali Zia are on the coaching panel of the NCA whilethe Junior Academy will be looked after by the former Test batsmenHaroon Rasheed and Azhar Khan.Later the chief coach Mudassar NazartoldDawnthattwo sessionswill beheld daily. In the morning, the first session will be conducted from5.30am to 10.30pm in which the boys would do physical exercises,swimming at the Shape Club, weight training and period for theimprovement of the communicative skills of the boys. In the secondsession the net practice will be held for four days in a week from4.30pm to 6.30pm. For the remaining three days, different options hadbeen selected for the evening session, included inviting a former Testcricketer or a Test umpire who will deliver their expert comments andlectures with the help of video films.Nurseries for boys at Lahore and Karachi.The Pakistan Cricket Board director Brig. Munawar AhmadRana said thattwo nurseries for boys, ages between 7-12 years would be developed atLahore and Karachi soon. He said that those academies were beingsponsored by a multi-national food company.Following are attending the academies:National Academy Lahore:SalmanButt,Toufeeq Umar (Lahore), ImranNazir(Muridke),HasanRaza(Karachi),Misbahul Haq(Mianwali),QaiserAbbas (Muridke), AsimKamal (Karachi), Naveed Latif (Sargodha),Faisal Naveed(Sialkot),Humayun Farhat, Kamran Akmal (Lahore),Shoaib Malik(Sialkot), Azhar Ali(Lahore), Yasir Arafat(Rawalpindi), ShabbirAhmad(Khanewal),KahshifRaza(Sheikhupura),Faisal Afridi(Sargodha), Irfan Fazil(Lahore), Zahid Saeed(Sialkot), NajafShah (Rawalpindi), Danish Kenaria(Karachi),AqeelAhmad (Faisalabad). Juniors Academy, Lahore.KhalidLatif(Karachi), Atiq-ur-Rehman(Gujranwala),Faisal Khan(Sialkot),Shahid Yousaf (Sialkot), Aftab Ahmad(Karachi),SalmanQadir(Lahore),Asim Munir(Gujranwala),AzamHusain (Karachi), AdnanAkmal (Lahore), Kashif Mahmood (Lahore),Farooq Babar (Faisalabad),Junaid Zia, Talal Zia (Rawalpindi),MohammadKhalil(Lahore),MansoorAmjad(Sialkot), Shakeel-ur-Rehman(Peshawar),Adnan Raza, Raza Ali Dar, Zulqarnain Haider,Kamran Sajid(Lahore), Ali Raza (Muridke), Ali Ahmad (Dera GhaziKhan), Nadeem Javed(Sheikhupura), Kamran Ali (Peshawar).