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Rashid Latif Cricket Academy
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Grand Strategy
- To obtain premises for the academy by acquiring amenity plot in an
area easily accessible by potential students.
- To enter into agreement with a financial institution for one of the
two options
- Partnership
- Leasing –100% or any component of it from a financial institution for
making academy sole proprietorship.
- To invite leading architects to design the academy but on an
honourary basis and also explore possibility of designing academy structure on
existing lines elsewhere in the world.
- To earn funds for the academy through renting ground and practice
facilities to private organizations.
- To obtain Capital funding through donations from individuals, private
and public sector organizations.
- Obtaining funds by offering private companies practice facilities for
their employees, and through celebrity matches and concerts.
- To prepare and send an income statement of the month to all donors
through e-mail for transparency.
- A selection committee of three will determine who qualifies for
scholarship.
- Make the facilities so attractive as to tempt young people into
spending more time at the facilities.
- To have the cricket gear sponsored by a sports goods manufacturer.
- RLCA will appoint scouts across Pakistan who will keep an eye out
for new talent in their allotted territories. They will also observe first
class cricket matches for determining if any player qualifies for RLCA.
- To select, besides Karachi, potential sites in five cities of
Pakistan and adopt the same formula of establishment in these cities. The five
locations are: Rwp-Ibd, Peshawar, Faisalabad (Sargodha-Shekhupura), Mirpurkha/Sukker, Quetta.
- The players can be rotated during training to any of the six locations. There will also be matches among the six teams with players being exchanged to provide balance where necessary.
- Coaching for coaches and umpires will be held through lectures, seminars and workshops and also through on the job training by submitting them to tests like for lbw appeals and then scrutinizing results through video camera placed directly behind and over his eye level.
- The academy will appoint guest lecturers once a week on personal management who will tutor on written and oral English, public speaking and event protocol. There will also be technical experts who will explain a new ICC ruling whenever one comes into effect. This will be after a full course has been conducted on ICC rules and regulations.
- RLCA will send players to overseas academy in two ways: One will be through an exchange programme of one to two months after he has completed the basics of relevant coaching. The other will be through a full year scholarship programme with the foreign academy.
- The academy will have proper Grades. These will be Under-15, U-17 and U-19 to begin with and once the structure is up and running RLCA will introduce U-13, U-11 and U-9.
- Students will graduate to the next grade based on a point system which will encompass entire syllabus from theory to practicals on not just cricket but general management.
- There will be weekly reports and assessments of the students with proper counseling. Promotions will be according to marksheet.
- One day a week will be kept separate for coaching girls from schools.
- They will be selected on the basis of their cricketing abilities and invited with their sports teachers. Members of the Pakistan women cricket team will be invited to conduct the training under the supervision of local coaches.
- An RLCA women’s team will also be formed which can be the basis of selection into the women’s national side.
- One day a week shall be kept aside for coaching the blind and special children on the same lines as the ones for women’s team.
- A proper website will be maintained for updating happenings and philosophy of the academy. There will be regular articles and press releases in the media about the academy workings and a quarterly newsletter.
- These, and the alliances with foreign academies, will be aimed at enhancing image of the academy and to give it international recognition.
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