Team should be selected based on the Psychology of the players.This should be the first criteria. In armed forces, this is the selection process (for Officer Cadre) bcoz what they believe is, if a person's psychology is suiatable for that job then he can improved even from scratch. They are not selected on the basis of physique in the beginning. Later they build the candidate in the cruical areas like war, disaster management etc. U can build the person according to the requirements of the game. if they r mentally strong then half of the match is won. Therefore psychological tests must be conducted to asses the suitability of the players to the game. Bcoz its no more a game now. Now Cricket is played more as a mental game. For this reason BCCI must take initiative of adopting this method and try it on the young boys (under 14). Select the players and train those who get through the tests. Its like a cricket school.
RE:Psychology Based Selection
by Gautam Das on Mar 26, 2007 02:12 PM Permalink
I believe we again have to look forward and do the simple thing ..bring cricket from root.
Indian board claims to be the richest board but the money lies at the top level and it is the worst board simply beacuse it does only know how to increase money but not how to increase the level of cricket. The money has been invested in high level not at school level or any proper cricket grooming schools. India can always improve business but not cricket unless the money making mind changes to cricket developing nation. Small countries like NewZealand , Srilanka focus on cricket improvement rather than money weaving machine.. Live, Play for cricket motto has change to Live Play for money based on cricket.
