Cricket Australia (CA) opened its new centre of excellence in Brisbane on Friday with the short-term goal of helping win back the Ashes.
The state-of-the-art centre includes a fully equipped gymnasium, video analysis room and sports science facilities.
"The role of the centre of excellence is simply to help Australia remain at the top of world cricket," CA chief executive James Sutherland said in a statement.
"We are confident that this new facility, coupled with the existing practice facilities, will help us achieve this goal," he added.
"In our short-term planning, the centre will also play a significant role in helping Australia win back the Ashes next summer with the Australian team basing itself here in the build-up to the series."
The number of students usually working at the centre will be in a range of 12 to 16 on an 18-week programme including fitness improvement, skills development, analysis of techniques, match scenario training and nutrition education.
There have been 260 players through the Australian Cricket Academy since 1998, with 186 going on to play at first-class level, 35 making the test side and 40 representing their country in one-day internationals.
The last student to play for Australia was off-spinner Dan Cullen who is with the squad on the current tour of Bangladesh.
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