Upton, who had four fruitful years from 2008 to 2011 Gary Kirsten Dravid’s insistence is back and will now help elite Indian players deal with the pressure cooker scenario in the T20 World Cup in Australia.
“With so much cricket being played, the mental health side of cricket is very important and a resource like him (Upton) will be really helpful to the group,” Dravid said. BCCITV
Dravid also feels that Upton’s familiarity with the Indian cricket set-up will prove helpful.
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“Travelling as players in international cricket, we understand the mental side of the game and we are fortunate to have someone like Paddy on board as he has the experience and experience of being with the Indian team during the 2011 World Cup. Even a little earlier.
“Most importantly, he (Upton) is familiar with most of the Indian players who have worked with him at the IPL level or in the Indian team.
“He is familiar with our culture and how the Indian team works. (It) seemed like a really good fit for us to harness his knowledge to build a team for the World Cup,” Dravid said.
My role is to create environment for development of players: Upton
Upton, who has his own unique skills for dealing with different players, wants to be seen as the facilitator of optimal performance levels from players in top-flight competition.
Upton said, “Everyone has a natural motivational flow and part of my role is to help individuals find that natural motivational flow and for that we need to establish an environment that allows people to become themselves.” and allow it to flourish.”
To prove his point, he gave an analogy of how a gardener needed to create fertile land to grow beautiful flowers.
“If I give a simple analogy that to grow beautiful flowers, gardeners need to create a fertile land. As trainers, our role is to create a fertile environment that allows our players to grow naturally and grow more on the field. Helps you reach your full potential outside,” added Upton.
According to Upton, if the team is in great mental state, performance will flow naturally.
“If the team is in a great place then performance is going to flow naturally. What we have to do is to remove the barriers to those performances, both individually and from a team perspective,” Upton said.
“The mental side of the game hasn’t changed much, but what has changed is the Covid experience and a lot of players have been on the road multiple times, so there’s an added element of trying to get each individual player in the best possible position. full team.
‘Me and Dravid have been talking about cricket, life and spirituality since ’96
Upton first met Dravid in 1996, when strength and conditioning coaches were not in vogue and on his first tour of South Africa, he wanted to pick the former’s brainchild.
“He (Dravid) has always been a man with such an appetite to learn around the game of cricket because he is a professor when it comes to the game of cricket, but about life and everything beyond cricket.
“We have been chatting about life, cricket, spirituality since 1996. We picked up again in 2008 with Gary Kirsten joining the Indian team.
“So I’ve been in these conversations for a long time and it’s super exciting to have those conversations every day and hopefully it leads to setting up this Indian team for an incredible T20 World Cup,” Upton said. signed.