Meet Kerala cricket team’s first ever mental conditioning coach
The Hindu
South African Jody Martins to work with senior team for entire domestic season
Till Paddy Upton was appointed as the mental conditioning coach of the Indian cricket team in 2008, not many in the country were aware of such a job. The South African was with the Indian team when it won the World Cup in 2011 and became world’s No. 1-ranked Test team in 2009.
Upton’s compatriot Jody Martins, who has recently been signed by the Kerala Cricket Association for a similar job, believes there is plenty of scope for a mental conditioning coach in sport. And he is glad that he has got an opportunity to work with a First Class cricket team in India.
“I already have had two online sessions with the Kerala cricketers and am looking forward to being with them physically,” Martins told The Hindu from Mossel Bay on Friday. “I was pleasantly surprised to find that some of the players were already into things like meditation and visualising; I would help them make use of such practices in their cricket.”