Need of the hour is sports counselling
Cricket is essentially a mental game
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
Cricket is essentially a mental game. It is time the BCCI sets up counselling centres to ensure that talent is not lost, writes Makarand Waingankar in the Hindu.
The famous cases of Bill Edrich in the 50s and the recent cases of Andrew Symonds, Herschelle Gibbs and some of the Indian cricketers indicate that cricket is not as simple a game as it looks from beyond the boundary line.
Fierce competition among the peers and illogical selections at all the levels increase the frustration levels in cricketers. The ones who successfully negotiate the pressure and control the frustration tolerance index tend to perform more consistently. And those who can’t, end up groping in the dark.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo