TheAustralian Cricket Academy was founded in 1987 as a joint initiative of theAustralian Institute of Sport (AIS) and theAustralian Cricket Board (ACB). It was initially located atHenley Beach inAdelaide before moving to theAllan Border Field inBrisbane,Queensland in 2004 and renamed the "Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence".
It was designed to be a finishing school for leading young cricketers and is a program within the AIS. It was for some time known as theCommonwealth Bank Cricket Academy as part of a sponsorship arrangement with theCommonwealth Bank of Australia.
In 1997, to celebrate the Academy's tenth anniversary, a team of graduates called the Australian Cricket Academy XI (captained byStuart Law) played an Australian XI. The match wastied.[1]
The current manager is the retired captain of theAustralian women's cricket team,Belinda Clark. At the end of the2010–11 Ashes series,Troy Cooley became head coach.[2]
