Badminton nice Prakash Padukone mentioned Sunday’s T20 World Cup match between India and Pakistan ought to happen, regardless of the prevailing tensions between the 2 nations and the calls to cancel the sport.
While insisting that he was ‘no authority’ and ‘nobody to comment’, Padukone mentioned sports activities and politics shouldn’t be blended. “I personally feel sports should not be mixed with politics and it should go ahead, that is my personal opinion, whether it happens or not, I am no authority, I am nobody to comment,” Padukone mentioned. “But if you ask my personal opinion, I think the match should go ahead, they have played in the past, so many times, so this is no different.”
The match, scheduled to happen on October 24, has turn into a degree of competition after politicians from BJP and AAP referred to as for the sport to be cancelled within the wake of the latest killings of civilians by terrorists in Kashmir. However, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) vice-president Rajeev Shukla mentioned on Monday India must play Pakistan as no staff can refuse to play one other aspect in a event organised by International Cricket Council.
The legendary shuttler was talking on the launch of a badminton teaching programme following a partnership between his sports activities administration firm and the National Sports Club of India (NSCI).
Padukone, in the meantime, acknowledged that the ‘standard was very low’ in Indian ladies’s badminton till Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu broke by. He additional mentioned it will likely be ‘impossible’ for the present technology of gamers to match the 2 Olympic medalists.
While Saina, ranked nineteenth on the earth, appears to be within the twilight of her lengthy profession, seventh-placed Sindhu is the one real contender in ladies’s singles. Other than Saina and Sindhu, there isn’t any different Indian girl participant within the high 50 of world rankings and solely two function within the high 100 – Ashmita Chaliha (83rd) and Mugdha Agrey (ninetieth).
“There is a big gap (between Saina-Sindhu and the rest), that is a fact. I think the standard generally was very low but these two took it to a different level altogether. If they were not there, I think we would have been happy,” Padukone mentioned. “But they have raised the bar so high that it is almost impossible…”
Padukone, mentioned one of many important causes behind Saina and Sindhu’s success has been their bodily capacity. “Both of them were very fit in terms of speed, fitness, strength and power, which none of the other girls have. Technically they are probably on par, whoever the current lot of players are (but) what they lack is the physical parameters in terms of speed, power and endurance,” he mentioned.
Padukone added: “Physically, Indian girls are generally not strong, maybe because of diet or the way we are built. Sindhu luckily had good height.. so you have to pick at a very young age, I would pick someone who is strong, not technically so sound but very fast and very strong. then it’s easier to train them. but if you are technically strong, good strokes and all, but not good physically then you can take them only up to a certain extent because it’s become a physical game now.”