Sachin Tendulkar revealed how technology played a big role in his career and what was his reaction when he first saw a laptop being used in the dressing room. He also talked about the importance of adaptability.
Technology has become an important part of the Gentleman’s game. With the growth of technology, all teams have hired analysts who can give a piece of detailed important information about their team and the opposition. The main job of analysts is to provide a detailed analysis of the opponent’s weaknesses and also their own strengths in a statistical way. This has made cricketer’s work on their game closely and improve their weaknesses.
“Technology has changed everything”
Sachin Tendulkar mentioned that 2002 was the first time he saw a laptop in the Indian dressing room and wondered what it would do in a dressing room.
“Technology has changed everything. In 2002, a laptop was brought to the dressing room and I said, ‘laptop kya karega dressing room mein? (What will a laptop do in the dressing room?)’. Over a period of time, there was acceptance. Only if there is acceptance, will there be adaptability.” Sachin Tendulkar told to Indian Express in an exclusive chat.
Over a period of time, there was acceptance: Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin revealed that it took some time but eventually players started to accept the technology and adapt to it.
“Our team meetings started to be more precise. It was not left to individual imaginations. So, the meetings were not like earlier, where we used to say … “yaad hai na Melbourne mein outswing pe out Kiya tha (remember back then at Melbourne, how we got them out)”. And after saying that, no one knew who was thinking about that Melbourne day and how we got the batsmen out. Now, we had data on the screen where you could pinpoint and say where the foot of the batsman was. We knew the number of times a particular batsman has been out in a similar fashion.” He added
Later, when he was asked about does the players were overdependent on technology.
“Personally speaking, I felt the deeper I got into it, the more my mind would get complicated. One needs to have that balance and see how much is enough. And instead of watching my batting, I watched the opposition bowlers. Let them spend more time on me and I will spend even more time on them.”
“I have always believed that batting and bowling are at their best when the mind is at the opposite end and not at your own end. Having the entire focus on you means you are worried about your technique and you are thinking of multiple things. This is when you literally have a fraction of a second to react and in that much time, there are so many things that you have to think about.” Master Blaster said
