The dearth of the quality players in the country is a result of poor planning at the grass root level. The PCB has been running regional cricket coaching academies for four years, indeed a good effort, but the right place to concentrate is school and college level.
In order to improve the standards of the game in the country, we should emphasize on the nursery of the game and it is a universal truth that schools and colleges are the best nurseries of sports in the world.
The technical failure in senior players exists because they were not properly coached at the primary level. To put the game on the right track, we must look into the cricket affairs at the grass roots level.
At the moment, we don’t have proper system at the school level. Although cricket tournaments are announced and played every year at this level but are being run without seriousness and direction. It seems that these matches are played only as a formality to spend the sports funds albeit the way these funds are spent is anybody’s guess.
The organisers must realise that until and unless this class of players is groomed, we would not be able to produce cricketers of high quality. There are no proper coaching arrangements at this level and this is the stage where the basics of the game need to be taught. In this age, whatever a player learns, remains with him for years to come. If a correct technique is taught at this stage, what one needs is only practice that would produce perfection with the passage of time.
