A controversy whether to establish a proposed Regional Cricket Academy funded by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in Pokhara or Kathmandu has surfaced again.

ACC Development Committee Chairman Jagmohan Dalmiya wrote to Cricket Association Nepal President (CAN) President Jaya Kumar Nath Shah December 29 last year saying the proposed Academy be established in Kathmandu, Shah said in a press statement.

“The establishment of the Academy in Pokhara could  not be convenient in terms of logistics,” Dalmiya reportedly told Shah. Members of the ACC development committee will visit Kathmandu to see the site of the proposed Academy in the capital after land maps are presented, Shah said.

A controversy emerged last year in the CAN after Shah issued an unilateral announcement saying the proposed Pokhara site for which land has been acquired  was not good for player safety because the ground was too bouncy. A section of CAN opposed Shah’s unilateral act.

An ACC general meeting in Sharjha on February 17,2002 decided to open a Central Asian Cricket Academy in Nepal to popularize the sport.