Brian Lara Cricket Academy

Envisaged to be the focal point for the development of future world class cricketers, the Brian Lara Cricket Academy will offer students, coaches and fans not only a platform for viewing matches, but a training facility that will define the cultivation of future cricket giants, such as the Academy's name's sake Brian Charles Lara, Trinidad's world record setting batsman and former
captain of the West Indies
Cricket Team.

Located just fifteen minutes north of the nation's energy capital; the city of San Fernando, the Brian Lara Cricket Academy will be the first state-of-the-art cricket training facility to be constructed by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.  The approximately 100,000 sq ft Academy will
include many noteworthy
features such as:

• A stadium with a total seating capacity of 15,000;

• First-class media tower;

• Training rooms;

• Club seating, lounges and executive boxes;

• Exhibition space;

• A public access road to the facility;

• Parking for private vehicles and specific parking areas to encourage the use of public transport to access the venue;

• Practice pitches; and

• Quick drain, professional grade cricket pitch.

UDeCOTT is developing the structures that form part of Vision 2020,
the development plan of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.