‘The boys hated the spectre of defeat’
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
George Binoy
In an interview to S Dinakar in the Hindu, Dav Whatmore reveals an interesting strategy he used with the victorious India Under-19 team before the final of the World Cup earlier this year in Malaysia.
“We set the clock forward to the next day. We visualise the next day. It is action time. We are in the final. We make some costly errors. The opposition catches up towards the end. We eventually lose the final.”
Whatmore continues, “Then we set the clock to the present time. I ask the boys how bad would it feel to come so close and then lose? To see the other captain holding the trophy, the media rushing to the other team for interviews. I then ask the boys whether they would like to go through the losing feeling.”
Mathew Varghese is sub-editor (stats) at Cricinfo