Mental Strengthening Phycological Program to help cricketers -
Chamila Kodikara
By Leslie Fernando
CRICKET: Sri Lankan cricketers will greatly benefit and they
should go places and climb up the ladder of success should they follow
the proposed Mental Strengthening Psychological Program said Chamila
Kodikara, Lecturer of Psychology, Chairman - Centre for Psychology and
Strategy Studies in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Observer.
Former Mahanama College sportsman, Kodikara, who excelled in cricket,
rugger, and swimming, is now Psychological Trainer for Max Cricket
Academy and Sri Lanka Cricket, is presently working with Bloomfield Club
cricket team too.
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Chamila Kodikara, Lecturer of Psychology, Chairman - Centre
for Psychology and strategy studies. |
Kodikara said that even the champion Australian team is following the
new method of Mental Strengthening Phycological Program. He said that he
likes to see cricket teams using his method and reaching the top. He
then will introduce a new psychological method for the improvement of
cricket.
The new method that Kodikara has in mind is the creation of
Psychological Behaviour that can be used for positive cricket. There is
nobody using that method at the moment.
The new method can be used for any sports. It is so easy to make the
team as the best team and take maximum performances out of all players
through the Psychological method. When the players starts to use this
method, the results will automatically follow.
Kodikara who has already delivered nearly 1500 lectures added that
the training the players undergo will bring good results. But he warned
that all the training one does (Physical or psychological) will in vain
if the players psychologically is inbalanced. A team must not have any
fear at all when a pressure situation arises. They must keep cool to
make the best use of the facilities.
Each player has problem. Players must take on Themselves to do their
utmost in each game so that the team will excel.
Kodikara said that most people know that cricket is no more a totally
physical game. It is fifty percent physical and fifty percent
Psychological game (mental). But to Kodikara’s experience and knowledge,
it is a seventy percent psychological game.
Kodikara who is also National Trainer for National Youth Graduates
Training Program, is also Psychological Lecturer for Police and Military
Services. He said that findings when one plays cricket it is certain
that person is playing from what he believes from his mind.
For example, when a bowler believes that the particular batsman is
very hard to be dismissed, then his bowling skill doesn’t help him to
bowl out that batsman at that particular time. It will cost greater
energy and time to bowl him out. It is possible to change this believing
behaviour in a cricketer but one has to do it in the particular game. |
