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mission statement

To become a cricketing house of knowledge and a centre of excellence in cricket education. To imbue in every developing cricket player the spirit of the game. To develop mental toughness in our youth by mixing street smart adaptation with well placed principles of technique. To make the academy a model of cricket excellence by quality all-round education, both theoretical and practical. To develop leaders for Pakistan. Unite the people and raise the profile of the country. Secure the interests of global partners, sponsors and suppliers.

 

Grand Objectives

  • To have a year round net and match facilities in Pakistan by providing practice pitches, gymnasium and eventually a cricket ground.
  • To manage the academy on professional and commercial lines but with a no profit-no loss positioning.
  • To support the low earning players not having professional job as active cricketers in accessing proper cricket facilities.
  • To channel Pakistan's teenagers and youth into constructive areas of mental and physical development
  • To support young cricketers with talent who have not been selected by national and regional cricket academies
  • To make available standard cricket gear free of cost to the developing cricketer for easier transition to top class cricket.
  • Select budding players from all over Pakistan for training in the academy.
  • To establish RLCA branches in different cities of the country.
  • To impart training to coaches and umpires as the academy develops.
  • To provide personal management and development programme to academy students.
  • To have a broad based curriculum incorporating various stages of development of cricketing skills.
  • To inform of approved and updated rules of the ICC with comments and explanations.
  • To close the current gap in skills and cricketing knowledge between club/first class and international level
  • To imbue the spirit of the game at an early age among academy students.
  • To impart cricket coaching to females, blind and special children to help develop the game among their segment
  • To provide some level of employment and growth opportunities to local cricketers and cricket related professions.
  • To have the academy recognized at international level within 5 years of start of operations.
  • To send one to two emerging cricketers to an Australian or South African academy.

 

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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