The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has developed an exclusive app in order to monitor the Indian cricketers on a daily basis and it is helping the players to get through the lockdown phase. Team India cricketers, coaches and support staff have been accessing the app that has videos of individual and team performances, skill-specific duels, and a database on the frequent causes of injuries among other things.
Apart from all that, the app has online training sessions, chat rooms, questionnaires among others, and a four-stage plan has been prepared to keep the players physically and mentally fit.
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Describing the same while talking to Times of India, the BCCI treasurer said, “It’s a step-wise process that’s been put in place and the secretary (Jay Shah) is reviewing the progress on a daily basis. What we’ve tried to do is divide this process into different phases. Aspects pertaining to the physical and mental health of our cricketers, professional assistance online, monitoring of diets, fitness sessions, etc are being conducted on a daily basis.”
India batting coach Vikram Rathour is working on each player individually while fielding coach R Sridhar has prepared a questionnaire to take feedback from cricketers.
Describing the same, Rathour had said, “It’s a rare opportunity to introspect. It is the players who are doing the talking. I’m trying to listen and work around the topics that are being brought up. We have an app. We’ve started to put videos in that app. Simple things about facing a certain kind of bowler or foot movement, any particular way a batsman has been getting out, what’s worked for him what hasn’t.”
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Dumal said once things start coming back to normal, there are plans to take the training outdoors whenever possible. He said that they will begin with skill-based training in local stadiums followed by reviewing the program dynamics subject to relaxation in lockdown norms so that when cricket resumes, the players can return to the field.
