Rahul Dravid expressed the need to educate young players about certain issues and their behaviour.
India's former captain and current A team coach Rahul Dravid has ugred people not to overreact in some recent events that have created a controversy in the cricketing world.
According to The Hindu, Rahul Dravid said that players have made mistakes in the past and will also make mistakes in the future. He, however, pressed the need to educate players about such things.
The report also said that Committee of Administrators (CoA) has started to address issues involving the grooming of young cricketer. "I have already started the process for the same. We will start in the NCA (National Cricket Academy) with all players U-23 – all categories." the report quoted CoA Vinod Rai as saying.
Board Cricket Operations Manager Saba Karim also confirmed the development. “We organise lectures for the youngsters on handling the media, understanding the laws, managing the finances. Dravid does it on a regular basis," he said to the newspaper.
These comments come at the time when it was reported that the CoA is mulling a behavioural counselling programme for the Indian team in the wake of the furore over KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya's sexist comments.
"The Indian senior team as well as the Emerging, A teams and U-19s will have behavioural counselling session at the National Cricket Academy (NCA). The course will deal with every aspect of a professional sportsperson's life. There will also be sessions on gender sensitivity," a senior BCCI official said privy to the development, told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
BCCI treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry, in his observations after the Pandya-Rahul episode, had also suggested that young players undergo gender sensitivity programme so that they are well equipped to face the spotlight when they get into top flight.
It is still not confirmed whether a group of individuals will separately conduct the training programme or any particular company will be outsourced.
It has also been learnt that lawyer Veena Gowda, who had recommended gender sensitization classes for CEO Rahul Johri, has been requested to suggest names of the company/individual for conducting his counselling.
(With PTI Inputs)
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