8. Youth Academy
Your club, being the responsible community centre that it is, runs a youth academy where it will give schooling to promising local young cricketers. Each week, after your leagues weekly finance update (See your countries "Dates" Pages in the Global > Country details sections to find out when that is), you can promote one of these youngsters to the senior side to see whether they will be able to make it in the big time. You can chose whether you want to try out a batsman, bowler, wicket-keeper, or an all-rounder. This can be done from the club info page.
There are a few factors that will determine how good your promotee will be:
- How good your academy is. You can improve the state of your academy by changing the amount that you invest into it. This can be done on your club info page.
- The type of player you choose to promote. If you chose an all-rounder you are less likely to get a good player than if you chose a specialist position, although this is not to say it can't happen.
- Luck. Try as you might not everything is under your control and so the fair lady will play a large part.
Put simply you will just never know how good that promising teenager is going to be until you take the plunge, so you may as well try and find out.
The other slight catch is that every time you do promote a player it costs you £500 in signing on fees.