BCCI president Sourav Ganguly feels Indian cricketers deal better with bubble life and the challenges that come with it.
“I feel we Indians are a bit more tolerant in this regard than the overseas cricketers. I have played with a lot of Englishmen, Australians and the West Indians, and they just seem to give up on mental health,” the former India captain said during an online event on the importance of mental health on Tuesday.
“In the last six to seven months, with so much cricket going on in the bio-bubble, it has been really tough. Just going from the hotel room to the ground, handling the pressure and coming back to the room and then getting back to the ground again, it’s a completely different life.”
Sourav also gave the example of the Australian team which pulled out of the tour of South Africa earlier this year, with their Board citing “unacceptable level of health and safety risk to players, support staff and the community.”
“Look at the Australian team. They were supposed to go to South Africa for a Test series. But they refused to go,” he said.
“The scare of Covid-19 is there always. But you have to stay positive and train yourself mentally. All of us have to train ourselves mentally so that the good happens,” Sourav added.
