Cricket Australia to appoint Mental health overseer

Cricket Australia (CA) is all set to appoint new mental health overseer for the Australian cricket team and also advertised the significance of mental health and well being of individuals. 

The selected candidate for the designated role will be reporting to the Head of Department of Sports Science, as reported by ESPN CricInfo. 

This has emerged after some Australian cricketers including Glenn Maxwell, Nic Maddinson and Will Pucovski took a break from the sport due to the mental issues and were out of the team for months. 

And now the COVID-19 pandemic has also raised the need of a mental health mentor who could uplift the players’ mood in any such circumstances. 

“The new Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead will give a greater focus on mental health at Cricket Australia, giving us an individual resource dedicated to this area,” CA’s high-performance chief Drew Ginn told to ESPN. 

Cricket Australia also stressed on inculcating positive habits which would help the players perform better on the field and also asserted that this step could be a massive success as well as a need for the team in the future. 

If this is implemented completely, all the aspects of the Australian cricket will be covered from State teams to the Men’s and Women’s team and also BBL and WBBL teams. 

CA has set a minimum qualification of post-graduate qualification in psychology/psychiatry, behavioural science, or a related field and clinical practice experience and also some experience in management background.