Cricketgraph has decided to delete its presence from TikTok, a decision which was contemplated even before the “nationalism” wave took over.
This dates back to how TikTok started over in India and within weeks the entire nation was glued to it. One of the reasons or the only reason for its rapid growth was at that stage it thrived on sleazy / vulgar / porn content.
This was the first sign that TikTok was determined to dominate the social media space through whatever means with complete disregard to values, ethics, integrity.
There was a nationwide uproar on the quality of content so much so that the Indian judicial system had to intervene to regulate the content.
The second alarming signs was the lack of TikTok process or algorithms.
Instagram has algorithms, process in place to track copyright violations, easier ways to report /flag inappropriate content, verified accounts etc.
However, with TikTok, copyright violations are galore, and nothing is being done about it.
Few months back we were contacted by one of the employees of TikTok, requesting us to activate cricketgraph’s channel on TikTok. He claimed that if we put 2-3 cricket-based videos on our TikTok channel, he would immediately increase our followers. We didn’t believe him, how can an employee with conviction tell us that he would immediately increase our followers? Do they have any processes at all or is it run by a bunch of trigger-happy individuals!
Nevertheless, we decided to give it a shot, to understand how they work.
We uploaded 2 average videos and next morning our followers skyrocketed from some 800 odd to 3000 followers! WHOA! He messaged us the next day and said “Dekha Kar ke dikhaya ne” “See I got it done”.
This demonstrated one thing quite clearly – Do whatever it takes to get accounts activated on TikTok and rule the world by legitimate or illegitimate means.
One would have come across many such celebrities who are going all guns blazing on TikTok,
These celebrities may be doing this innocently with all the right intentions, probably not realizing the other dark side of their actions.
Recently we came across videos from few celebrities warning India of the sinister goals of TikTok and the various covert ways through which the app gets personal information from the user’s cellphones. (Referring to videos by AbhiandNiyu on Insta and the famous Sonam Wangchuk)
These messages had a touch of “Nationalism” to it and its completely fine coz after all we are all love our country!
Today, we are deleting ourselves from TikTok. This wasn’t an easy decision coz after all cricketgraph is in the media space and our revenues are determined by the number of followers, reach etc.
Today we are taking a stand against such evil methods deployed by a global company – Bye Bye TikTok
From playing alongside greats to becoming one of the prolific domestic players himself, our next interview is lined up with none other than Sheldon Jackson.
Smart, stylish, suave and consistent have been some keywords associated with Sheldon Jackson for all these years. He is also one of the very few keepers to have more than 5000+ FC runs with an average of 50 which are simply envious numbers for a wicket-keeper batsman. He has been the backbone of Saurashtra Team where he has been amongst the top scorers for multiple seasons. Also it won’t be an over-statement to say that Sheldon has been a vital cog in Saurashtra’s rise through all these years. .
Such has been his on field presence and consistency that major cricketing pundits & fans have missed him as well as questioned his absence in the IPL Circuit & Indian Cricket team. Sheldon has knocked the doors of Indian Team quite a few times coming close but that cap has eluded him so far. Sheldon has also been part of the KKR and RCB teams in the Indian Premier League.
In a candid conversation with Cricketgraph, Sheldon opens up on a number of things ranging from his fitness to how he deals with pressure to how he copes up with not being able to represent India despite staggering numbers backing him up to answering the community questions powered by Hell Energy.
Someone has rightly said that if there’s somebody after parents, then it has to be your guru. This has certainly proved to be true in the case of Pushkar Sharma, a resident of Delhi who played Club Cricket in Mumbai.
Starting his Cricketing innings with Mumbai’s School Cricket, Pushkar went on to lead the Mumbai U-16 Team. Noticing his talent, Mr. Ajish Abdul Rehman and Mr. Ramana Meesala of Indiafirst Life Insurance Company (that was trying to build a formidable Corporate Cricket Team) provided him the opportunity to work as a Phone Manager at their Organisation.
Around a year later, keeping in mind the talent of Pushkar, his childhood coach Digambar ‘Sir’ shared with him an opportunity to play in one of the famous Cricket leagues of Africa, for which he had to be away from the company for a month. But it was almost impossible to take a month’s leave for Pushkar.
Then he decided to speak with his Head of the Department, Mr. R Shankar (IndiaFirst Life Insurance). The latter was very supportive, and thus presented the case before the Chief People Officer, Mr. Praveen Menon, who in turn was very considerate to allow him to carry on.
Doing justice to his talent and the expectations of his supporters, Pushkar slammed three half centuries in four matches. Impressed by his ability & talent, the Chairman if Ruarka Sports Club and CEO of the Hirani Telecommunication Limited, Mr. Mansukh Hirani offered him to stay in Africa and play for his Company and Club. What’s more, the contract also mentioned about the opportunity to represent Kenya National Team on the basis of merit and performances.
After coming back to India, Pushkar put forward this opportunity in front of his respected seniors at IndiaFirst for their guidance. Looking at the bright prospects for one of its employees, the organization happily released him.
Pushkar Sharma today is working as a Project Manager at Hirani Telecommunication Limited in Nairobi. He stated in an interview with Cricketgraph that if every sportsman got support from their organization like he got from Indiafirst, they would definitely achieve highs in their careers.
Pushkar also added the names of people who had always supported him that included Mr.Digambar sir (Coach) , Mr. Ajish Abdul Rehman (Head of Analytics at IndiaFirst), Mr. Ramana Meesala (Senior Manager), Mr. Llyoyd Monteiro (Head-Corporate HR), Mr. R Sankar (Head-BCU), Mr. Sachin Mahajan (Manager), Mr. Shalesh kumar pandey (Behavioral Trainer) to name a few.
Cricketgraph wishes Pushkar for a successful innings at Nairobi and we wish him all the luck to represent the Kenya National Team.
From being the 1st player of Nepal Gorkha Origin to represent State Team of Mumbai to making his Ranji Trophy Debut at a tender age of 19 alongside the hallowed greats of Indian Cricket to confidently hitting a scoopshot to Ben Stokes vs England XI to taking a stunning catch at the 2nd slips with an helmet on in Ranji Trophy, there is always something unique about Jay Bista which sets him apart.
A player who is known to be one of the clean strikers of the ball has marked his presence with some stunning knocks in different formats of the game at various age group levels. Jay also lead Sobo Supersonics in the finals with a relatively young and emerging troop in T20 Mumbai where in he not only led the team with the bat but also displayed solid leadership skills.
Cricketgraph in a candid chat with Jay spoke on a range of topics right from his debut to getting dropped to again making a comeback for the Mumbai team. Some other topics were also touched upon right from his experience of playing vs England XI in a practice match to his fitness regimes to answering some community questions powered by Hell Energy.
There’s a lot of negativity and false information everywhere in terms of foods and supplements to keep the health and immunity up. Especially in athletes who have to keep their stamina, immunity, strength, up, throughout the year.
The lack of physical training has made life in quarantine a little more than challenging for athletes. It is very essential to keep their eating habits appropriate and not fall prey to unhealthy eating patterns in off season, which can affect their performance negatively later.
Many athletes are in confusion about the way to maintain their health realizing their diet periodization, workout & practice schedules, games have gone for a toss. But, taking this time-off seriously would be wise for getting ready for the next season, by training & eating right for:
a) Maintaining and keeping the basic immunity up,
b) Maintaining their healthy muscle weight and prevent fat gain, that will help in recovery,
gain back strength and reduce the injury risk or help in rehab.
c) Adopting good eating habits, indoor workout habits and work on overall well-being.
Now, with the decrease of training volume also comes a decrease in caloric intake. The coronavirus quarantine, emotional and stress eating is very common for all. But I believe this is a test for all of us for self controlling in terms of binge unhealthy eating. This practice however will result in fast fat-weight gain as you over-consume unwanted calories. Athlete’s require an off-season nutrition plans with right choices of food as per the goals by keeping moderate carbohydrate & fat intake, high in protein, fibre, antioxidant & water intake for maintaining immunity and body composition. If body weight is a concern, try to maintain good weight range
or to get into better shape, maintain your muscle mass or increase your muscle mass (who are aiming to gain weight), for the next season.
This is a good time to effectively increase lean body mass and hence strength and stamina, by keeping the workout and diet in sync with each other which is essential for repairing physically and mentally. As we progress from off season into pre-season, it’s important to match what you
eat during training, practices & match days.
Top two areas to work on when going into off season:
1. Recovery needs – this includes recovering from the training session.
2. A decrease in energy expenditure – this is particularly important right now as many athletes do not have access to training facilities or maybe in quarantine.
The Basic rules apply,
DO’S:
-Keep a fixed nutrient-rich quarantine diet plan, by including all food group rich in proteins, antioxidants, moderate carbs & low fat. Keep hydrating enough.
-Keep fixed workout rituals and sleep patterns.
-Set daily goals in terms of your work, training, shadow practicing to avoid mental stress and emotional eating.
-Maintain a good basic hygiene and have home cooked food to avoid any type of infections.
-Try taking up mind relaxing and self-care activities like reading, yoga, meditation, etc.
DONT’S
– Do not binge or avoid sugary, oily, junk foods, packaged foods during your quarantine which will lead to fat gain.
– Avoid smoking, alcohol which might increase your body fat, lower your immunity, recovery
and breathing patterns.
-Avoid emotional eating and late night sleeping patterns
Quick tips for recovery and performance in off season:
-If your training is increasing, start adding in carbs sources at times leading up to and post- training.
-If your training is decreasing in volume and/or intensity, follow the recommendations for reducing overall energy intake while keeping protein sources constant.
-Pre training, consume a quick carbohydrate rich food for good energy flow.-If your training is less than 45 minutes, just drink water during the event.
If it involves more than 45 minutes, consider electrolytes drinks.
– Post training, drink enough water.Next, take a quick protein and carbs source intake to get to your muscle as quickly as possible to help in repairing muscles.
-Consider consulting a Sports Nutritionist for some goal oriented diet plans suggesting foods and safe supplements suggestion (brands and dosages) required for recovery and immunity.
I believe there’s not one diet plan that suits all. The calorie requirements changes from person to person in terms of their body goals, nutrient deficiencies, training schedules, intensities, food allergies, availability, eating patterns, etc and so the diet plan should be made customized as per
the athlete’s goals. So consider consulting a certified Sports Nutritionist who can help you guide better.
Each one of us have a human side and it gets demonstrated in trying & difficult times too. One such move was demonstrated by Suraj Samat who is an MCA member as well as the committee member of DSC (District Sports Club) BKC.
DSC BKC which is at the heart of city is also very close to the red zone Dharavi which has become the hotspot of coronavirus cases in Mumbai. With rising number of patients everyday, Suraj & his team at DSC were the first ones to proactively respond to address this issue. They wasted no time in first allowing the government to utilize their infrastructure for the patients and then immediately converting the infra in to a full 300 beds set up for the patients.
Apart from lending its space to the quarantined patients , DSC BKC is also conducting free yoga sessions for them. Apart from this, the Club has also offered 1000 masks, 96 sanitizer bottles of 500 ml each and gloves to the BMC workers.
From organizing cricket tournaments to providing support during this pandemic, MCA Member Suraj Samat has been at the forefront in helping the community in whatever capacity he can. Just few months back, he had organized Samat T20 Cup for Mumbai Club Cricketers which proved to be a big platform for budding cricketers. The tournament had record prize money which was never heard before in local cricket. Samat Cup went on to become one of the biggest professionally organized T20 Club Cricket tournaments in Mumbai.
Here are few snaps from the DSC premises,
Aslam Shaikh, a very promising & experienced A Div Cricketer from Mumbai- an all rounder and a big hearted man is going through tough times with his health issues. He is suffering from vein damage in his body which has made his arms and legs immobile (no movement). Few years back he had injured himself while playing in a Cricket Tournament which has now become a serious complication for his health and life.
His friends and colleagues have decided to help him with some amount of contribution for his treatment. Even though, Aslam has refused on this act, his mates insisted him to accept as a token of love and support. If anyone from the Cricket Fraternity wishes to help Aslam, they can contribute some amount to his wife Mr’s Shaikh’s bank account.
If anyone wishes to contribute through Cricketgraph, they can swipe up the story for next 24 hrs. We wish he achieves a speedy recovery and comes back even stronger.
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I believe fitness is very essential for almost every level of cricketer & studies have proved that cricketer are also prone to various types of injuries like any other field of sport.
The sport of cricket is challenged by three formats of the game. Each format
varying workload demands. Cricket is one such sport which test game skill, mental strength, stamina and physical endurance as well. Fast bowlers have greater overall match play demands than any other role in game. The overall aim of this blog was to identify that cricketer needs.
When we talk about exercise it is always the best option to start with getting
basic right what many cricketer neglect, is the fact that this speed up too much in their training program by lifting heavy but at the same cost of compromising the exercise technique. There is a physical demand on a cricketer’s body that requires the right strengthening and conditioning as a batsman, you are using your whole body to perform a fluid movement.
For batting, you rely upon the muscles in your back, shoulders and biceps. You’re also engaging your core muscles to help turn the body as you swing the bat. Fast bowling is another full body movement. Fast bowling workload has good relationship with injury and performance workload.
WORKLOAD
Workload monitoring can play an important role in preventing over training syndrome and management of unwanted amounts of fatigue. Both generic and sport-specific measures of workloads are used in sport. Workloads can be regarded as external and internal. External load comprises the ‘work’ performed in a physical task, while internal load describes the physiological or psychological response (i.e. ‘strain’) of the athlete to the external work performed. (weekly load x monotony = strain}
Workload monitoring in athlete established for injury reduction and game
performances. The fitness and fatigue from training and competition directly affect to athlete performance understanding acute and chronic fatigue is vital in athlete management performance outcome from training are directly related to the magnitude of the both fitness and fatigue responses to a given workload.
Fast bowler at greater risk of injury than their methods and nature of injuries sustained to involve intensive rehabilitation period. Fast bowlers injury profile is most similar to a football player and baseball pitcher.
TYPES OF INJURIES:
1. Direct injury { impact with Cricket Ball, Bat and Ground}
2. Indirect injury {due to repetitive stress}
GENERAL RULES FOR THREE TRAINING PHASES:
The most commonly indirect injured body parts are lower back, feet, ankle and ligaments {stronger bones, muscles, ligaments and tendon reduce risk of injury}
The basic things to remember before starting training is there is three periods {preparation, competition, transition) and three phases (general and specific, pre and competitive, Trans 1 and Trans 2). General rules for three training phases
1. Divided in 3 modes {High intensity, Mod intensity, High volume}
The human body responds to training in particular ways, Most of the methods depend upon measuring the quantity of training (volume) and quality/difficulty of training (intensity).
High intensity- The training focuses on performing quality weight training
repetitions to the point of momentary muscular failure, Training has a positive immediate effect (within 3 weeks) upon improving performance.
Mod intensity- Moderate intensity is anything that gets your heart rate up to 50-60 percent higher than its rate when you are rest.
High volume- High volume means more reps and sets, training has a delayed or longer-term training effect
2. Vary sessions (type, mode, volume, intensity) no same in week
3. In season perform lighter recovery session first in the week, before hard
training.
4. Skill tactical training is performed with endurance to challenge skill and
decision making ability in fatigue state
5. Fitness – fatigue= performance
6. Fitness is the positive result of the training, Fatigue is the negative result of training.
Specificity
A complete system of athletic development that focuses on training the athlete body in a manner that it is specific to their respective sport. These gain are archived by making sure all functional movement patterns are where they need to be.
“There is reason why a sprinter can’t run a marathon and marathon
runner can’t run a sprint. They certainly don’t train a same. Every
kind of sport is different, and you need to think about specific needs”
Recovery
Recovery aims to restore physiological and psychological processes.
Recovery is increasingly important to the high performance athlete in
a bid to reduce fatigue and enhance performance. Adequate recovery
is required for improve athlete performance and minimize the like
wood of over training syndrome. Over training syndrome is the characterized not only by a reduction in athlete performance But also
compromised neuromuscular, hormonal and biomechanical status.
Some of the most popular recovery methods for athlete.
1. Sleep
Getting quality sleep is more than getting quantity sleep, which means
sleep must have minimal disturbance. Athlete who sleep on average <8 hours per night have greater risk of being injured than those who sleep & 8 hours.
2. Nutrition & Supplement
Proper nutrition and supplements is important to improve recovery.
Getting in the right nutrients after exercise can help you to rebuild your
muscle.
3. Massage
Massage can be used for muscle recovery and rehabilitation of injuries.
Dynamic compression helps to improve circulation of blood, better
circulation means better oxygen supply to the muscle and reproving
metabolic waste product from muscle.
4. Active recovery
Commonly used form of post exercise recovery. The role of active recovery
reducing muscle soreness after exercise is important factor for athlete.
Various modalities of activity used {swimming, jogging, cycling}
5. Passive recovery
Passive recovery is the easiest & cheapest form of recovery. Sometimes
passive rest is the best way to help an athlete recovery, sometimes it is not.
Passive rest also include meditation, relaxing listening to music, flotation,
etc. Regeneration of mind can help recovery of body.
From stitching big partnerships with Sachin Tendulkar to thrashing Shane Warne to leading the India U19 World Cup Team, Amit Pagnis has seen as well as experienced the golden phase of cricket in his heydays. What’s more his journey does not end there, Amit Pagnis went on to score over 5000+ first class runs before finally hanging up his boots in 2008.
But as we say, once a cricketer, always a cricketer and it’s difficult to keep such personalities away from the game. Amit now serves as the Head Batting Coach for all age groups at the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA Academy) where he shares his valuable experience with the youngsters.
Cricketgraph got an opportunity to interact with Amit Pagnis where he shared all the memories of his U19 World Cup Days which had the likes of Virender Sehwag , Mohammad Kaif and Harbhajan Singh playing under him. Amit also shared about his partnerships with Sachin to how he took on the legendary Shane Warne.
In the full interview he also courteously answers all the questions asked by our Community.
This lockdown has taught us many things which have been nothing but positive. Many of us have also realized that lockdown can be a good opportunity to cover up those pending things which we did not have time for earlier. Even amongst the cricketers, most of the players are enrolling in some or the other online courses which ranges from Cricket Workshops to Marketing to make the most of their idle time.
These few months of no cricket has been a loss for the young aspiring cricketers as they have lost a crucial season from their career. However, with the rise of social media and technology, many academies and coaches are trying to keep the players in sync with their game through online coaching.
Hence, we at Cricketgraph have come up with an initiative for U12 to U23 Age Group (Boys & Girls) with a 3 Day Online Workshop. The players will get a chance to interact with Mumbai U19 Strength & Conditioning Coach to experienced Cricketers of Mumbai. The students will also recieve guidance on the do’s and don’t’s, the pathway to become a successful cricketer.
The workshop will focus on mental skills & game observation. The other key highlights will be understanding the concept of Strength & Conditioning in Cricket, develop performance analysis to improve session by session in a match. This is also a very relevant opportunity for the parents as well as for for girls who want to or who are pursuing Cricket.
The Online Session will be of 1.5hrs daily conducted over Zoom. The dates for this workshop have been set at 14th, 15th & 16th of May, 2020. The timings will be communicated to all the participants over the mail.
Click on the link to register: