In 2019-20, most domestic players had shoulder or knee injuries:
According to the Injury Surveillance Report, conducted by the National Cricket Academy (NCA), most of the domestic cricketers of India suffered from knee or shoulder injuries during the 2019-20 season.
The report is accessed by PTI and stated that between the time period of 2019 April and 2020 March, there were 218 men and 44 numbers of women, a total of 262 cricketers were at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) for rehab programs.
If we represent the report with a pie chart, then we can realize that 14.75 percent of the cricketers including both men and women, sustained shoulder injuries, which is nearly 38 of those players.
And the second most common issue was knee injury with 13.11 percent, which is nearly 34 of the players.
The chart also represents that a majority of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries, which is nearly 74 percent happen in the primary two years of “return to sport”.
The Rahul Dravid led NCA has been working continuously to boost its facilities as well as its functionalities. Also, he has discussed with Sourav Ganguly, the BCCI president to work on the plans in the last few months.
Streamlining the coaching program:
According to the NCA report, there is a necessity to refurbishing the Education Programme of coaches to make it more “learner-centric”.
It gives more priority on new ‘Coach Certification Courses” along with a “more learner-centric redesigned curriculum” (Physiotherapy, cricket, conditioning, and strength).
The report also shows that the NCA will conduct a minimum of 24 such kinds of programs (13 programs for 1st Level, 10 for the 2nd Level and 1 for 3rd level) in which 576 more deserving coaches are qualified to take part.
Improvement of Learning Management System (LMS)
An extremely new ‘Virtual Learning Platform’ is being set up for NCA. Now NCA can explore more ideas to conduct online courses with mixed learning (online as well as face to face).
