IPL News | Paddy Upton on resumption of competitive cricket

I personally agree with the comment of Paddy Upton who was the former coach of IPL's Rajasthan Royals franchise coach that resuming a game like cricket ain't suitable as the mental situation of majority of players' won't be up to the mark and instead it'd at least take 2 to 3 weeks before they'd be able to compete with a competitive brand of cricket like IPL which is a T20 franchised based league associated with India. Furthermore, He was ended up quoting;

Do you see the IPL happening this year?

It's really unknown whether IPL will happen, as much of the future remains rather uncertain. Some are prophesying months of lockdown and slow down, and others suggest that this is not too far off the regular annual influenza. Time and research will tell when sporting action will resume.

But the main thing which I also agree with is human-psychology aspect when we incur a self-quarantine where we get self aware of their personal-hygiene more than ever, personally when it comes to my personal experience, the time when I enter home from my office, my wife usually orders me to take a shower on immediate, the purpose of telling this is that this disease has literally affected the psychology of every single individual human being, which we used to take for-granted, we personally have to give them their importance;

What would be your remedy to keep depression away?

Being proactive in each of the areas I mentioned, ensuring that we are productively building each facet of our life, moving towards solutions, rather than sitting and doing nothing and over-worrying about current or future problems.

Last but not the least, like he also ended up saying the same thing, that we are not ready for this mental re-modification, therefore whenever such situation occurs; we should now be ready to face such catastrophe and keep out mind calm at critical situation, which we learnt the hard way;

In your interaction with players, did you ever ask them to be prepared to handle a situation like this?

I didn't specifically prepare a player for things like this, but certainly have had a number of conversations about how they are using their downtime. For international cricketers, much of this downtime is spent in their hotel rooms, and I have always encouraged them to be productive about this time, broadening their horizons and furthering their lives, rather than simply whittling this time away by spending the majority of it watching TV series, playing TV games or being on social media.

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