• After you retire, you should be judged by how many friends you still have in the cricketing circles. – Joel Garner

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  • You need to go out there and enjoy the contest between bat and ball. – Rahul Dravid

  • A fit body, healthy diet, and a good balance of activity and rest are required. – Pankaj Advani

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BORDER-GAVASKAR SCHOLARSHIP

Annually, the NCA awards a scholarship to three promising players to visit Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Brisbane.  The scholarship is named after the legendary Australian and Indian captains, Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar, who both scored more than 10,000 runs in Test cricket.  The duration of the scholarship is 4-6 weeks.

The following players have been awarded the scholarship:

2010:

  • Mandeep Singh - Punjab CA
  • Harpreet Singh - MPCA
  • Abhimanyu Mithun - KSCA

2009:

  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar - UPCA
  • Abhinav Mukund - TNCA
  • Jitendra Patil - Maharashtra CA

2008:

  • Virat Kohli - DDCA.
  • Pradeep Sangwan - DDCA.
  • Tanmay Srivastava - UPCA

2007:

  • D.B. Ravi Teja - Hyderabad CA
  • Cheeshwar A. Pujara - Saurashtra CA
  • V. Yomahesh - Baroda CA

2006:

  • Kshernal Waingankar - Mumbai CA
  • Gaurav Dhiman – KSCA
  • Pinal Shah - Baroda CA

2005:

  • V.R.V. Singh - Harayana CA
  • R.P. Singh - UPCA
  • Fiaz Fazal - Vidarbha CA

2004:

  • Shikar Dhawan - DDCA
  • Suresh Raina - UPCA
  • Y. Venugopal - Andra CA

2003:

  • Siddharth Trivedi - Gujarat CA
  • Udit Patel - KSCA
  • Raiphi Gomez - Kerala CA
2002:

  • Gautam Gambhir - DDCA
  • L. Balaji - TNCA
  • Thilak Naidu - KSCA
2001:

  • Deepak Chougule - KSCA
  • Parthiv Patel - Gujarat CA
  • Vinayak Mane - Mumbai CA
2000:

  • Mohammad Kaif - UPCA
  • Shiva Sunder Das - Orissa CA
  • Sridharan Sriram - TNC