Former Indian skipper, Virat Kohli celebrated his 34th birthday with other members of the Indian contingent on Saturday at the team hotel in Melbourne. The batting maverick cut the cake alongside, Paddy Upton, the Indian team’s mental conditioning coach, who also turned 54 on the same day. The Men in Blue will be locking horns […]

India’s mental conditioning coach, Paddy Upton has named two of the most professional cricketers he has come across, one of which is head coach Rahul Dravid. Upton worked closely with Dravid in the past when he was with the Indian cricket team during his first stint and later with the IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals (RR) […]

Team India’s mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton has recently revealed that 10 months before the 2011 World Cup, the Indian team management believed that they won’t win the competition. In a video uploaded by the cricket.com/tv YouTube channel, Upton said that everyone on the coaching team, including head coach Gary Kirsten, had a fear that […]

Mental health conditioning coach Paddy Upton has expressed the excitement and privilege he feels being back as he is back with India men’s senior national team for a short stint along with the coaching staff of Rahul Dravid. Upton expressed delight at reuniting with Dravid, a long-time colleague, and friend. The Indian team management roped […]

Mental conditioning expert Paddy Upton who featured in India’s support staff in India’s 2011 World Cup winning squad has been added to team India’s support staff again to assist in preparations for the upcoming October-November T20 World Cup in Australia. Upton has been involved in cricket around the world in various capacities and he shared […]

Former India’s Mental Conditioning coach, Paddy Upton has opined that it was the right call to promote MS Dhoni ahead of Yuvraj Singh in the 2011 World Cup final. Upton asserted that Dhoni is one of those genuine massive high-pressure players while Yuvraj isn’t. MS Dhoni scored a game-changing knock of 91 runs to help […]

Paddy Upton, the former Team India mental conditioning coach, reckons that the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli witnessed a turn in his career after realizing his flawed fitness regime. After the 2014-15 season, the current Indian skipper pulled up his socks and kept raising the benchmarks of fitness. It was the same period when Virat had […]

Former India fast bowler S Sreesanth, whose life ban was scrapped by the Supreme Court recently, on Sunday talked about many things of his life – from his hatred for Chennai Super Kings and the rumoured rift with Paddy Upton to how he had spent n the jail. However, he has faced many controversies and […]

When it comes to man-management, there are very few in world cricket who are even close to the former Indian skipper, MS Dhoni. Leading an international team for the first time is a task in itself and when it comprises of the players like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, and other stalwarts, […]

Recently, Paddy Upton, the former Indian mental conditioning coach launched his book ‘ The Barefoot Coach’ and in that book, he has made some interesting revelations regarding the likes of Gautam Gambhir, the former Indian opener, and S Sreesanth, who was banned after the IPL spot-fixing scandal in 2013. In his book, Upton also mentioned […]