Depression in cricket

[akshayxyz]

Freddie Flintoff: Hidden Side Of Sport That was a real eye-opener Everyone need to watch it.

any link that can work outside UK?

[Sachinism]

http://filepost.com/files/c45952b7/Freddie_Flintoff_-_The_Hidden_Side_Of_Sport_11th_January_2012_PDTV_XviD.avi/

[akshayxyz]

I got to that link, but it says 'free downloads limit is over', buy premium to download this. anyway, I will search later, since its BBC documentary, there have to be more copies lurking around. otherwise, some UK based anonymous proxy has to be there.

[Crookbond]

Depression exists. Exaggerated the way how modern cricket functions. Difficult to understand unless you're under the water. Sub continent players may not even understand!

[Dravid]

when v koomar is playing tests, and classy shrama is on the bench, depression toh aayega na..

[amiret]

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[King Tendulkar]

This is so depressing!

[Cricket Tragic]

Marcus Trescothick, Iain O'Brien and Andrew Flintoff among others have in recent years publicly acknowledged their battles with depression and brought a difficult subject to light. Now Lisa Sthalekar, currently the No. 1 women's player in ODIs, takes the same brave step in her recently released biography: Shaker: Run Maker, Wicket Taker. Women's cricket may only get a fraction of the public attention devoted to the men's version, but the pressures of the game are no less for it. Sthalekar, an orphaned Indian girl who was adopted by a bi-racial couple (Indian father, Australian mother) when she was three weeks old, began playing competitive cricket early. She admits she was not much of a student, so it is no surprise that her self-esteem is linked to her performances on the field. As Ed Cowan wrote in a column for ESPNcricinfo last July: "A professional sportsperson is his or her performances. From experience I can say it can feel like you have ceased to exist when failure is the story of your day." In Sthalekar's case it was a combination of poor results for Australia and questions about her leadership ability that started to wear her down. When the same problems trickled down to state level, she lost her last refuge in the game. There appears to have been little sympathy or understanding from those administering the game and caring for the players. "I knew from then on there was no point telling anyone in the administration how I really felt, it only made things worse," Sthalekar writes in one of the more poignant lines in the book. It took her father's urging to get her to realise she was dealing with depression and to seek help. She rejected the option of completely taking a break from cricket and played the World Cup on home soil; she decided instead "to go on some medication and try to segregate my world into work, playing cricket and home time". The family stopped discussing the game at home and slowly the fog lifted and she was able to go back to functioning "at a fairly normal level". Sthalekar's stated intention in relating her story is that other players ought not to suffer the way she did. Hopefully those in positions of power are listening. Dealing with depression is but one chapter in the book, the vast majority of which covers Sthalekar's playing career through to 2011. Sthalekar, though, appears reluctant to place her experiences in the wider context of women in sports, or even in the context of how the profile of women's cricket has changed since she started playing international cricket. (On top of playing cricket, she still needs to hold down a full-time job to pay the bills.) http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/559388.html

[veer]

wonder how dhoni and SRT deals with constant bashing towards them..

[Sachin=GOD]

wonder how dhoni and SRT deals with constant bashing towards them..

I really don't think these guys (or any others sports persons in other sports) can actually survive in a sport for long if they read too much in the papers or watch the "experts" on TV or check out the internet fan sites or listen too much to the fans because the reality is that more 99% of the cricket fans wouldn't have played even school cricket but they go about being the biggest experts.

[Crookbond]

I really don't think these guys (or any others sports persons in other sports) can actually survive in a sport for long if they read too much in the papers or watch the "experts" on TV or check out the internet fan sites or listen too much to the fans because the reality is that more 99% of the cricket fans wouldn't have played even school cricket but they go about being the biggest experts.

:nice:

[Ultimate_Game]

wonder how dhoni and SRT deals with constant bashing towards them..

Depression is not due to bashing or caused by critics. It depends on the individual and every person has a different mental makeup. It's the same as you going away to college/hostel for 4 years. Some people take ragging in their stride and laugh it off while some break down and leave hostel and sometimes college. You can't blame anyone for it and can't do much. It's just life and everyone is different :dontknow:

[CG]

Only ones depressed are indian cricket fans.

[vvvslaxman]

wonder how dhoni and SRT deals with constant bashing towards them..

HOnestly tell me would you not trade your life with either one of them in a heart beat? :cantstop: .

[Needforspeed]

wonder how dhoni and SRT deals with constant bashing towards them..

I came across a girl who said she loooooooves Dhoni b'cos he is so cuuute recently. And most people anyway adore SRT. For every Indian cricket lover who loves cricket and judges players based on their performance for India, there are 100 cricket 'followers' who love their heroes and really dont give a damn how the team performs. So in India, its only fans like us who are depressed.

[Marut]

wonder how dhoni and SRT deals with constant bashing towards them..

It is likely they pay a hoot about this. You just can't afford to listen to the millions of opinions.

[Crookbond]

I came across a girl who said she loooooooves Dhoni b'cos he is so cuuute recently. And most people anyway adore SRT. For every Indian cricket lover who loves cricket and judges players based on their performance for India, there are 100 cricket 'followers' who love their heroes and really dont give a damn how the team performs. So in India, its only fans like us who are depressed.

Very true!

[The Outsider]

More than Dhoni and Tendulkar, it's Jadeja and Vinay Kumar whose mental strength should be admired. At least in the case of Dhoni and Tendulkar one would find a fair number of people showering praises on their accomplishments - what about Jadeja and Vinay Kumar who get hammered day in and day out or other members of the team's fast bowling attack?

[Cricket Tragic]

More than Dhoni and Tendulkar' date=' it's Jadeja and Vinay Kumar whose mental strength should be admired. At least in the case of Dhoni and Tendulkar one would find a fair number of people showering praises on their accomplishments -[b'] what about Jadeja and Vinay Kumar who get hammered day in and day out or other members of the team's fast bowling attack?

On the field or off it?

[Sachin=GOD]

On the field or off it?

I guess both and off the field.