CA overturns plan to ban England players from using new cricket centre in Gabba Test

Cricket Australia has reportedly overturned a plan to ban England's squad for the winter Ashes series from using its new, 29 million-dollar National Cricket Centre (NCC) in Brisbane.

Although senior CA officials were initially hoping to place the centre off limits to the English squad, the board later decided not object to England using the Centre if it is not booked as they feared that Australia could get a rough deal when they wanted to use England's National Cricket Academy.

According to News.com.au, although the English squad have not requested use of the venue, CA performance boss Pat Howard warned that the centre is booked very heavily now, and any space left will be used by the domestic Australian teams as they come next in line after the national side.

The report mentioned that the NCC features an indoor training centre, with several simulated match surfaces, a rehabilitation centre with a three-lane, 25-metre lap pool, a hot and cold plunge pool, three medical consulting rooms, a physio treatment area and a gymnasium with an anti-gravity treadmill.

CA's High Performance staff will operate out of the new building that will also include two lecture theatres, one named after former captain Ricky Ponting, the report added.