Super Kings Academy Dallas

TASK 3 citation fix (2026-09-25): the Yardbarker link previously cited here is a syndication of an SI/OnSI piece, not an original source — replaced with crictracker.com's own reporting, which is closer to first-hand (quotes Louis Mariano, Director of Cricket at Super Kings Academy, directly). Announced December 27, 2023: opened in Lewisville, TX (a Dallas suburb, and the home base of the Texas Super Kings IPL/MLC-adjacent franchise) as Super Kings Academy's ninth center worldwide and first in the US, following earlier UK (Berkshire, July 2023) and India centers. Source: crictracker.com/cricket-news/super-kings-announce-launch-of-cricket-academy-in-dallas-metro/ (also independently covered by cricadium.com and bvmsports.com). Franchise-branded (IPL team brand, not an individual celebrity), same distinction already applied to Rajasthan Royals Academy Melbourne in this project's Australia data — celebrity_branded left false since that field is defined around a named individual's brand, not a team/franchise brand; the franchise relationship is called out here and in affiliation.governing_body instead. No independent confirmation of day-to-day CSK front-office involvement versus a licensing/branding arrangement. [TASK 1 audit, 2026-09-25: relabelled direct-contact -> verified-news-coverage. The actual evidence here is independent press reporting (crictracker.com, quoting the academy's own Director of Cricket) that this project's researcher read, not a website fetch by us and not phone/email/in-person contact - verified-news-coverage is the correct existing category for this evidence type.]