Walk past our nets at 6 AM and you'll see four lanes running four very different sessions. That's not chaos — it's the grading system that decides what every Everest player works on each week.
The four grades
Grade 1 — Technical. Slow pace, coach feeding, one skill in isolation. This is where a grip change or a new release happens, away from any pressure to perform.
Grade 2 — Repetition. Bowling machine or side-arm at match pace, same ball over and over. The new skill has to survive volume before it survives a match.
Grade 3 — Contest. Real bowlers, real field settings called out, runs and wickets counted. Every contest net is logged, and those numbers feed the player's profile alongside match statistics.
Grade 4 — Scenario. "Four overs left, 31 to get, two wickets in hand." Players bat or bowl a specific match situation, and the video room reviews the decisions, not just the technique.
Why it matters
Most academies run every net as a Grade 3 contest, which is comfortable and almost useless for changing technique. Separating the grades lets us tell a player exactly where this week's work happens — and our tournament statistics tell us whether it transferred to the middle. When Reyansh bowled his maiden in the Winter Cup, it came after three weeks of Grade 2 work on a repeatable length. The numbers aren't a report card. They're a feedback loop.
