Former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh emphasised throughout the trophy tour occasion in Mumbai on Monday, August 11, that self-belief is essential, particularly when issues begin to unravel, one thing that inevitably occurs in main tournaments. With simply 50 days remaining earlier than India begins their 50-over Ladies’s World Cup marketing campaign on house soil, worthwhile recommendation has come from one of many best World Cup veterans on managing expectations whereas taking part in within the intense Indian ambiance.
Yuvraj, who confronted comparable high-pressure conditions throughout the 2011 Males’s World Cup, when India ended a 28-year wait to assert the title, believes that his expertise may show useful to Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, and your entire India Ladies squad when the going will get robust in a world occasion like World Cups.
“The followers are at all times wanting fours and sixes, or wickets. That’s the sport. They arrive to observe. They need leisure. They need to be entertained. There can be instances when issues will not be going to go effectively. And that’s the time when the expertise, the self-belief, has to take over. The idea that I could be the participant at this second. I feel each time you stroll within the sport, you need to consider that,” Yuvraj stated as quoted by The Indian Categorical.
At all times be within the second: Yuvraj
The Chandigarh-born recalled that after India’s loss to South Africa throughout the 2011 World Cup at Nagpur, media backlash had began. It was then that Sachin Tendulkar and coach Gary Kirsten devised a technique to deal with the stress, the crew determined to keep away from watching TV and studying newspapers to dam out the surface noise. Notably, the sport in opposition to Proteas was the one one the Males in Blue misplaced throughout the occasion that 12 months.
“Social media wasn’t large that point, proper? Now it’s. Gary stated whenever you stroll via crowds, you’re alright to go and signal signatures however put in your headphones. Go and focus in your discipline. While you return to your room, put your headphones again on. Be in that second, lower the noise, and try to do what you want to do,” the 43-year-old recalled.
The Ladies in Blue will open their marketing campaign in opposition to the Lankan Lionesses on September 30 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, and can face each crew in a round-robin format.