National Cricket Academy - Controversies

Controversies

• Sunil Gavaskar was a member of the NCA committee in 2000 and resigned after criticism from NCA Chairperson Raj Singh Dungapur on his comments in a newspaper column that it was not correct for NCA trainees to get a tour match at the cost of local teams.

• 3 Cricketers in the inaugural batch - Murali Karthik, Harbhajan Singh and Nikhil Haldipur were released from the academy citing indiscipline.

• In August 2007, Kapil Dev was removed from Chairmanship of the NCA a day after he addressed a press conference about BCCI's rival Indian Cricket League.