 In March 2012 the first cricket academy was opened in Moscow and at present 50 young native boys, 32 senior native men and 58 native girls are enrolled and are learning the skills of the game.All the rules, regulations and coaching manuals are translated into the Russian language.Cricket Russia achieved affiliation to the International Cricket Council and reached new heights with the help of Alexey Kylasov, Arvinder Singh, Saqib Shaikh, Mahendra Mapagunaratne, David John Warlond, Abhijat Sawarkar, Alexander Ratner (President of Russian Baseball Federation), Gorman Mathew, Suyogya Sharma and Sergey Kurchenko.