Cricket coaching is evolving, and in keeping up with the changing times, Bravo Cricket Academy (BCA) will launch an app to help its players develop and keep track of their careers with long-term goals in mind.
With its official launch on January 1, 2021, BCA will become Qatar’sQatar’s first cricket academy to have its app. BCA offers various coaching levels for different age groups, starting from 5 to 18 years and seniors, including women cricketers.
The app provides several features that will help the players track their career details over time, ranging from performance monitor, batsman wagon wheel, digital report card, and live streaming. Other striking elements of the app are league management, player profiles, player statistics, practice session scoring, bowler pitch map, facility management, nets & ground booking, and player boarding.
“This mobile application has been launched to give our players an enhanced experience by letting them monitor their performance from training to practice matches and tournaments,” said Sunil Alexander, BCA operations manager.
BCA, which has set goals to produce technically proficient players both at the junior and senior level for the Qatar national team, also aims to make the budding cricketers tactically astute and physically ready.
The app will help the players and officials keep track of their performances even after leaving the academy or moving to another country.
“Players at the academy have been given a User ID and password, and they can access their performance at the click of a button. Besides, parents can also keep track of their children’s report cards,” said BCA CEO Christopher Raja.
The app will also help the trainees when they shift bases or come under a different coach.
“The App will have all the players’ data from bowling to batting style, his strong and weak areas. When any player moves out of Qatar and goes to a new coaching facility, the concerned coaches will have the required data available to him,” said Christopher. The latter played for ten years in Oman before moving to Qatar in 2016.
The Bravo Cricket Academy, set up in 2018, was created to provide quality cricket training and the opportunity to learn from experts the art of cricket in a fun, safe, and innovative environment in Qatar. This all-year-round academy, which has two branches in Al Wukair and at the Qatar Foundation, integrates the best in cricketing techniques, technology, and coaches to develop world-class cricketers.
“With the use of technology, innovative coaching, physical, tactical, mental and lifestyle program we aim to produce rounded disciplined individuals with the support of all staff across the departments within the academy, preparing the players for life inside and outside of cricket. We also aim to educate all parents on key aspects so that they can help influence things like basic player support pre/post competition and nutrition,” Christopher added.
