The Youth Cricket Academy (YCA) coached its first cricketers on October the 7th 2001. Various sources were used to come up with the training programs that would be used by our coaches, from South African cricketers to provincial coaches.

The aim of the YCA is to give the cricketers that attend whatever they require to improve their game. The strongest cricketers are taught some of the finer points which schools cannot afford the time to teach, while the weaker ones will have to get the basics fine-tuned before moving onto the more intricate aspects of the sport.

The coaches are all qualified, experienced and have a wonderful rapport with the cricketers. In summer the cricketers are divided into groups of 5 or less and remain with those other 4 cricketers until the end of the term, unless a cricketer is moved to a group of different strength.

The cricketers learn the correct techniques of batting, bowling and fielding. In winter the YCA coaches cricketers privately, with a coach for every player. In the December holidays the cricketers are able to enroll for cricket matches, which will be played at the Youth Cricket Academy fields.

Every cricketer that has attended the YCA has been worked and improved on, because unless you are the best player in the world, there is always room for improvement.