BCCI and National Cricket Academy on the same page, reports suggest otherwise
A senior Team India cricketer, who had hit the nets and started training at a private facility once partial lifting of lockdown began in June, complained about a niggling injury that individuals around him expected the National Cricket Academy to attend to. Expressing “helplessness” to do much in the middle of an unrelenting pandemic, the academy said it couldn’t help by way of an online diagnosis and remedy either because the cricketer’s complete medical record was not at the NCA’s disposal. The cricketer is fit now and back in the nets, but the academy’s stated ‘helplessness’ to step forward became a talking point soon after. “Then, what exactly is the NCA’s role, if not to identify with a cricketer’s fitness and injury-related concerns and address it?” a senior cricket administrator told TOI on Wednesday, post a webinar held by the academy to address BCCI members and their operational divisions.
