Ravi Shastri, the outgoing head coach of the Indian team, warned that if cricket committees and the International Cricket Committee (ICC) around the world do not address their mental fatigue, cricketers may choose to withdraw from international commitments. Shastri talked about the loss of the “mental and physical” of the Indian players after playing in the biosecurity bubble in the past six months. India failed to qualify for the knockout stage of the T20 World Cup.
The 59-year-old said that the poor performance of the Indian team in the 2021 T20 World Cup was partly due to exhaustion due to the prolonged biosecurity bubble. “I won’t make excuses, but we have been living in a biosecurity bubble for the past six months. Ideally, we want a bigger gap between the IPL and the World Cup.
These are all human beings, and they didn’t come on!” Terry said on Star Sports before India’s last Super 12 game against Namibia that they won with 9 wickets. “I am mentally exhausted and I hope to be at my age, but these people need to rest to recover from physical and mental fatigue,” he further added. Shastri insisted that the current Indian team is a “victorious team”, right The lack of attention to players’ mental health may hinder the team’s progress.
“All cricket boards and ICCs need to consider how they will deal with the mental fatigue of the players. Because after a period of time, if we continue to play in such a bubble, you will see players start to withdraw from future series. You can do Make a change and let young people fill it, but in the end, India is playing and people will remember it. Let me tell you that this Indian team is a winning team,” Shastri said.
The coach said that the Indian team’s X-Factor was gone, and due to fatigue, the team did not “turn on” as it should. “When an important game comes, when the pressure hits you-you are not as energetic as you should be. This is not an excuse. We accept failure because we are not afraid of failure. Because in the process of trying to win, you will Lost a game. Here we did not try to win because of the lack of the X factor,” he said.
News Source : Hindustan Times
