It was at the age of 9, the cricketing bug hit Gomel and he started practicing cricket rigorously. Getting trained under Pravin Amre sir, Aakarshit was fortunate enough to get all the basics of red ball cricket sorted from the guru himself who has shaped the careers of many first class as well as International cricketers in India. With the advent of T20 cricket rising since many years, the emphasis on red ball cricket has dwindled considerably. Aakarshit strongly believes that his batch of cricketers would probably be the last batch coming from “old school of traditional cricket” as more and more players are now focusing on white ball cricket.
Aakarshit who has been brought up in Mumbai studied at Don Bosco School, Matunga and his cricketing journey started right from the days when he was selected for Mumbai U13!
As VVS Laxman had famously said once to Harsha Bhogle in an interview- “You can see many players score a 25 or a 30 ball 50 but you would now hardly comes across players who have the technique, resilience and patience to face 50-60 odd deliveries to score 25-30 runs!”
Over the years, Aakarshit has developed himself to be a solid, indestructible top order batsman who can face 70-100 odd deliveries in a match without losing patience or getting restless. The matunga boy has peers like Shams Mulani, Aditya Tare, Siddhesh Lad & Suryakumar Yadav who all are known for their classical mould of batting. With players like Pandya, Pollard and Russell being the hot selling products today in cricket, fortunately Aakarshit falls into the list of classical old school of cricketers much like Pujara or Rahane who have a solid technique and know the importance of red ball cricket. The virtues of grinding it hard through playing years of red ball cricket (i.e the long format) in whites at local level is what makes a batsman shine and polish at the highest level!
The 25yr old has represented Mumbai team at U13, U15, U19 & U23 Levels with a career best score of 250 when he played for Mumbai U19 which was quite impressive back then. Aakarshit also plays currently for top division clubs like Shivaji Park Gymkhana and Parsee Gymkhana in various MCA Tournaments. When his father (a Central Govt employee) was transferred in Delhi in 2012-13, he also represented Delhi U19. Aakarshit also received “MCA Junior Cricketer of the year awards” at the U16 and U19 Levels.
In 2009, Gomel participated in Zonal Cricket Academy Camp at Vadodara, he was the Captain of the ZCA U16 Team vs NCA at Bangalore. In 2010, he was called for NCA (National Cricket Academy) Review Camp. In 2012, he was close to representing India in Blues when he was in the probables for the India U19 World Cup Squad. His journey has been full of hardwork coupled with cherished landmarks. Aakarshit got a big stage opportunity in 2018 where he was amongst the top 5 run getters in T20 Mumbai’18 with 205 runs in 5 games playing for Sobo Supersonics Team. Aakarshit played for Aakash Tigers team in the 2nd edition of T20 Mumbai’19 as a frontline opener.
Aakarshit is thankful to his family for the constant support he receives to pursue cricket as a career. Let’s wish the youngster who was also in the Ranji Probables in 2017-18 a fruitful career ahead as a top order batsman!
One of my athletes came up to me complaining of generalized body ache since last 15- 20 days. He had symptoms of body ache, tiredness and said that he feels that he is not recovering well enough. When asked about his training history and schedule, it was evident that he was training too much and the strategies for recovery were inadequate. That is when I came to
know that he is overtraining. But what exactly is overtraining? Let’s find out!
The overtraining syndrome is a common cause of constant tiredness in athletes. It may have disastrous consequences for the elite sportsperson. The terms overtraining, overreaching, overtraining syndrome, burnout, staleness have all been used in association with this condition and needs to be clarified.
There is also a term called “overreaching” which describes similar symptoms but of a more short and temporary nature.
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How does an overtraining syndrome develop?
A combination of excessive training load and inadequate recovery time results in short-term overtraining or overreaching. The overreaching is associated with impaired performance. If, at this stage, the athlete rests and has time to regenerate, the symptoms disappear and super- compensation may occur. Unfortunately, some athletes react to impaired performance by
increasing the intensity of their training. This leads to further impairment of performance, which may, in turn, result in the athlete increasing training other. A vicious cycle develops and leads to the overtraining syndrome.
Overreaching is often used by athletes during a typical training cycle to enhance performance. Intense training, in the short term, can result in a decline in performance; however, when incorporated with appropriate periods of recovery, a super-compensation effect may occur, with the sportsperson exhibiting an enhanced performance when compared
with the baseline level.
Other common causes of tiredness can be viral illness, nutritional deficiencies of iron, carbohydrates and protein content within the body.
How to know whether an overtraining syndrome has developed?
The initial symptom of the overtraining syndrome is usually fatigue (tiredness) but, with time, other symptoms develop.
Some of the symptoms used as indicators of overtraining include:
Decrease in the performance despite continued training
Constant fatigue
Cardiovascular changes, such as increased early morning heart rate or resting blood
pressure
Frequent illness, such as upper respiratory tract infection
Constant muscle soreness/ body aches
Loss of body mass
Lack of motivation
Loss of appetite/ eating desire
Sleep disturbances
High self-reported stress levels
Irritability or depression.
Who are at risk?
Certain groups of athletes appear to be at an increased risk of developing the overtraining
syndrome:
An athlete new to a particular sport may train overzealously without proper knowledge of training.
A sports person who is achieving some initial success may be encouraged to train even harder.
An athlete may be led into overtraining by trying to train with better athlete.
It may also be dangerous to follow the training program of an established
"champion" whose training program may have been published in a magazine or on
the internet.
The athlete who does not have a coach or training group to set training programs is far
more likely to over-train. The support of a sensible, experienced coach or trainer is the best means of maximizing performance and avoiding overtraining.
Potential triggers of overtraining syndrome
Increased training load without adequate recovery
Excessive number of competitions
Sleep disturbances
Stressors including personal life (family, relationships) and occupational
Previous illness
High altitude exposure
Heat injury episode
This was an overview of overtraining syndrome. Hope you have got an useful insight about overtraining syndrome. In the next article I will be writing more about how to prevent yourself from overtraining!
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The following Senior Women players are selected for Off Season Camp for the season 2019-2020.
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All the selected players are requested to report at Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy, Bandra Kurla Complex on Monday, 15th July 2019 at 10.00 am
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All the selected players are requested to report at Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy, Bandra Kurla Complex on Wednesday, 17th July 2019 at 11.30 am
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The following Under-16 players are selected for Off Season Camp for the season 2019-2020.
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All the selected players are requested to report at Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy, Bandra Kurla Complex on Tuesday, 16th July 2019 at 10.00 am.
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To become an MCA certified coach, you need to be in touch with the Mumbai Cricket Association to get all the updates about the exams schedule. Once you get hold of the schedule, then you need to fill up the forms available on MCA site and submit at the MCA office. Currently MCA takes level O exams once every year. Once you pass the level O exams, you become a certified coach and become eligible for level A exams conducted by BCCI. This Certification will help you get a job as a Coach/Assistant Coach in all A, B and C division Cricket Clubs or Academies.
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Things which are covered in MCA Level O Exam-
The exams are conducted once a year either in May or September/October (Last year it was in Sept/Oct), it depends on MCA and one needs to stay updated on their website.
For level “O” Exam the Coaching faculty covers all aspects of the game, they teach grass root level skills to coaches which covers all the basic techniques about batting, bowling, fielding and in exam the coaching faculty asks the questions randomly based on the coach’s practical and theory knowledge, based on that one gets marks for theory and practicals.
Exam Simulation Example- They may ask any 1 question in batting, bowling and fielding each. Like for e.g: during exam in batting you maybe asked to explain sweep shot and practically you have to play that shot and explain how it should be played. Coach needs to cover all the important things which are required to play sweep shot. In bowling for example you may be asked how to bowl a googly, so you have to practically bowl a googly and tell how it should be bowled! And coach has to tell 2-3 points which is required to bowl googly.
Note: Above are only examples-Questions and techniques of conducting in exams may vary.
Author-Sumeet Khanna (MCA Level O Coach)
The Mumbai team began their new season on 10th July with a 4 day game against Rajasthan in the Dr.Capt. K.Thimmappiah Memorial Cricket Tournament 2019. This was the first of three games that Mumbai will play in July. JUST Cricket Academy in Bangalore was the venue !
Mumbai won the toss and decided to bat first. The wicket was fresh and there was some swing for the fast bowlers at the start. Bhupen Lalwani opened the innings and played himself in ! He then went on to get a brilliant 99 only to miss his century by 1 run as he was bowled by Mahipal Lormor. Eknath Kerkar , the skipper for Mumbai , formed a very good partnership with Bhupen Lalwani. Eknath scored 96 before he was dismissed. Mumbai ended their innings at 386/10. For Rajasthan , Mahipal Lormor, the spinner, was impressive with the bowl as he took 3/48 . The left arm fast bowler , Vikas Johrar took 3/81.
Rajasthan, in their first innings managed to score 366. Chetan Bist scored 85 runs and Aditya Garhwal scored 51. For Mumbai , the left arm orthodox spinner , Vijay Gohil was the star with the ball as he worked his magic. He took 4/79 and he was well supported by Roysto Dias who took 2/54.
The second innings for Mumbai began and Bhupen Lalwani started from where he left off , he scored another 56 runs to go with 99 in his first innings. Siddharth Akre scored 88 runs while Chinmay Sutar scored 84 to take Mumbai to 304/10. Mahipal Lormor was fantastic again for Rajasthan as he took 4/38 !
The game was heading towards a draw when Rajasthan came into bat in their 2nd innings. The Rajasthan openers played out the remaining overs of the match and Rajasthan were 39/0 at the end of day 4.
The game ended in a draw but a lot of positives for both the teams going into the next games.
Brief Score : –
DR. (CAPT.) K. THIMMAPPIAH MEMORIAL CRICKET TOURNAMENT 2019
Mumbai VS Rajasthan Match Full Scorecard Click here ….
Mumbai 1st Inning Batting 386/10 in 114 Overs– Bhupen Lalwani 99 (181), Eknath Kerkar 96 (180), Vijay Gohil 55 (86).
Rajasthan 1st Inning Bowling – Mahipal Lomror 3/48, Vikas Johrar 3/81.
Rajasthan 1st Inning Batting 366/10 in 111.3 Overs – Chetan Bist 85 (150), Amit Gautum 62 (121), Aditya Garhwal 51 (94).
Mumbai 1st Inning Bowling – Vijay Gohil 4/79, Royston Dias 2/54, Shashank Attarde 2/74.
Mumbai 2nd Inning Batting 304/10 in 84 Overs – Siddharth Akre 88 (109), Chinmay Sutar 84 (127), Bhupen Lalwani 56 (124).
Rajasthan 2nd Inning Bowling – Mahipal Lomror 4/38, Abhimanyu Lamba 3/50.
Rajasthan 2nd Inning Batting 39/0 in 13 Overs – Chetan Bist 32 (48).