The NCA director and former India cricket captain Rahul Dravid feel that players should be able to maintain a balance in everything they do. To him maintaining good mental health is a huge challenge nowadays.
Dravid on mental health
In an interaction with ‘ESPNCricinfo’, Dravid, who is presently the National Cricket Academy (NCA) Director said that in a tough game like cricket amid so much pressure having in good mental health is a challenge. “It is a big challenge. This is a tough game. There is so much competition, a lot of pressure, and kids are playing all year round now. It is a game in which you do sometimes spend a lot of time waiting around, having a lot of time to think.”
He further added how the cricketers need to take care of themselves and strike a balance. “….you really need to look after yourself on and off the field and look after stuff like mental health. That’s again something that, as much as we talk to these boys about, it’s really important to maintain a certain level of balance in everything you do,” Dravid explained.
NCA to work with mental health issues
The NCA Director, is keen on developing a system where professional help is at hand when a player needs it. He revealed, “There has been some work on that as well, wherein eventually we’ll get to a point where hopefully we should have professionals on board. I think sometimes some of these things need to be handled by professionals.”
Dravid things that “there may be some things where we might need to look at professional help.” Hence it is on his to-do list as the director of National Cricket Academy. “It’s one of the things we are definitely keen on doing at the NCA: giving some of these boys access to some level of professional help if they do require it.”
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