The BCCI is coming around to the view that exposing the U-19 players to the Twenty20 game is detrimental to their growth.
According to Sunil Dev, an NCA committee member:
“There’s one question that needs to be answered. The NCA spends lakhs of rupees grooming youngsters form the under-16 stage, holding clinics with specialists emphasising on core skills. After that, it doesn’t make sense to put them straight into Twenty20, where they need to do exactly the opposite. Everybody has agreed to it in principle, but it was decided that there was a need to do further homework on the matter.”
However, Sanjeev Sharma, chairperson of the junior selectors, makes a valid point, “it’s important to ensure that the motivational and skill levels of the players are not waning from ‘real cricket’”.
In essence, he is expressing the fear that budding cricketers will expend their energy in learning skills that will stunt their growth as cricketers.
Do you think IPL has the power to corrupt a cricketer’s skill?
According to Sunil Dev, an NCA committee member:
“There’s one question that needs to be answered. The NCA spends lakhs of rupees grooming youngsters form the under-16 stage, holding clinics with specialists emphasising on core skills. After that, it doesn’t make sense to put them straight into Twenty20, where they need to do exactly the opposite. Everybody has agreed to it in principle, but it was decided that there was a need to do further homework on the matter.”
However, Sanjeev Sharma, chairperson of the junior selectors, makes a valid point, “it’s important to ensure that the motivational and skill levels of the players are not waning from ‘real cricket’”.
In essence, he is expressing the fear that budding cricketers will expend their energy in learning skills that will stunt their growth as cricketers.
Do you think IPL has the power to corrupt a cricketer’s skill?
6 comments:
Yes, IPL can corrupt, or precisely big bucks can, at least at the early stages of U-19. If we were told in school that you could make more money using your high school diploma alone, would any one have gone to college?
I welcome this move, for the benefit of Indian Test cricket, however, I think BCCI/IPL committee should have thought lot of such issues out throughly before putting up their posters. At that time all they were interested in was snubbing Kapil and ICL. I wonder how many more such things they are going to pull-back on?
VMM,
It is indeed a corrupting influence.
I think U-19s can't handle the fame with maturity either (except for a few folks like Sachin :-)). So I think it is a good idea.
RS,
For once everyone is appreciative of a BCCI move, :)
By real crickt they mean test cricket? It is likely that in the days to come under 19 will also ignore test matches and bothe abt honing IPL skills.
Apart from all the corrupting influences, isn't the below point an advantage for U-19 player? :)
"It has been great to share the dressing room with senior players from different countries."
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