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3 hours ago

No names, no pack drills……

I’m sure you know who you are.

The academy coaching structure in India is broken.

The Academy structure is failing more than 60% of junior cricketers.

Too many parents are paying money for absolutely nothing.

We’ve had 40% of cricketers turn up for trials who have been paying for academy coaching for 2/3 years and they don’t even have a decent set up.

The boys we’ve seen are “chucking “and their parents have been paying big money to mainly large franchise academies for 3/4 years.. It’s sad and embarrassing watching them bowl and even more embarrassing when their non-cricket parents think they’re doing fine.

Some parents are just not aware that their children are going backwards, not forwards…

It’s nothing short of theft…

If your child was going backwards at school grades in math, science etc., parents would be asking what the teacher and school was doing…

The analogy is the same with cricket… parents do need to ask why their child isn’t improving at cricket… particularly after 1/2/3 years of academy coaching and paying the big fees..

In my opinion it’s the academies who have multiple franchises and or a large number of academies are the biggest culprits…

Think McDonalds or Burger King… … that’s how too many of our kids are being served cricket.

It’s simply a process line of people and cricket…. Do you want pickles, mayonnaise?

Most parents are getting pickled and creamed big time!!!

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3 hours ago

This is an intriguing observation. With so much money in cricket, is this issue confined to India alone.

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