How's The Coach ..!
Mr. Shrikant Jadhav
-Coach [Kedar Jadhav Academy] (present)
-Former first-class cricketer
-Selector for the Maharashtra Cricket Association (senior team selection panel)
-Match referee
-Represented West Zone in the early-1990s
-Represented Maharashtra in Ranji Trophy
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*Exclusive Interview with Shikant Jadhav Sir*
As a cricketer, as I played the junior level as well as in the senior level, I have experience of round about 20 years in first class cricket. Including under 19, under 22, Ranji Trophy as well as India team.
During that I worked hard for the position in the cricket as well as in the market as well as in my personal life.
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What is your experience as a coach?
As a coach, after my playing days, I started coaching under 13, under 12, under 14 boys, especially junior level, grass root level.
My experience is different because I played in the local cricket as well as national cricket in different type of situations, means at our time not all such facilities were not there, but today we have all the facilities for the boys. So it’s a different coaching to the old boys and to new generation boys. So it requires much experience as well as it’s a challenging job to be a coach, because today when I’m teaching the boys, that is also a learning for me.
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For how long have you been coaching?
I’m coaching from last 13-14 years, but during between the 2014 onwards I’ve become a match referee as a domestic cricket in BCCI, so that time I couldn’t coach.
Where after 2020 I retired from the first class as a referee. So after that I started again coaching.
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Why you opted cricket and what was your family’s reaction?
In our days cricket was the fashion, so it was very prestigious to play a school level or district level or the state level.
My parents were like even if I played, when I played under 19 or under 22 Maharashtra, they didn’t even know that their child is playing such a wonderful cricket or like that because that time it wasn’t as focused as a profession or a commercial cricket. That time cricket was different, it was a fashion as well as to achieve something extra, extraordinary. That is why I started(playing) cricket in school level means under-12 under-13, I played under interschool, then I played colleges inter-colleges when I played under 19.
So that was gradually it was my ladder for the success in my cricketing life. My parents were afterwards backing me but they don’t know anything about the cricket, but they always backed me.
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What quality should a sportsperson have?
Automatically when you become any sportsperson not only a cricketer here, any sports athlete or any sports you belongs to it will be automatically change your approach towards the life.
First important thing in my opinion is, when you become physically fit, automatically you become mentally fit. So it helps you in your work, in your cricketing life as well as your personal life as well as your family life, you become disciplined and that is most important. Whenever you get to be a sportsman all the these things naturally comes, it’s not necessary to teach anything extra.
It matters the respect you get, the respect you give to other your teachers and automatically it’s a very nice achievement, to become a sportsman.
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So how different, according to you, is coaching from playing?
It is, I think playing is more easy than the coaching because of the generational change.
I already I told that when I was boy, that was a different type of coaching.
We used to do hard-work to play, do more stationary, more we had to stick with the basics. But nowadays you have to be with new facilities, you have to change your coaching statistic.
Also you have to change according to the boy. Every boy plays a different type of game so as the coach, you have to think mostly as a, different type of person as a player. If he’s a fast bowlers it’s different, if he’s batsman it’s different, if he’s a spinner it’s different, if he’s a wicketkeeper then its more different.
So it’s very tough and you have to always then, it automatically comes that when you are going to coach, you have to study and give it to the boys, to the next generation.
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So back then, who was your cricketing idol?
When we are playing, Sunil Gavaskar was the my idol and then afterwards, Sachin Tendulkar.
But I’m very happy that I played with Sunil Gavaskar, Vengsarkar Kapil, that generation also, and with Tendulkar, Dravid, Kamble, Prasad also
I got out Sachin Tendulkar twice(in Ranji trophy).
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And who, according to you today, is a model cricketer?
Nowadays, no one.
But, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, you have to follow them and you have to see them how they work hard, how they play cricket. It’s very important. Every cricketer should follow MS Dhoni and Virat.
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What is the condition of the Indian cricket team today?
It’s very nice. For last 10-15 years, they are working on the junior level and they’re getting results. Under 19 we twice won the World Cup also and once we were the finalist.
Then Senior Boys also playing very well.
In all categories, also because of IPL you are getting more quality players to achieve their dreams as well as to represent state or national level or international level, it’s very nice and we have a good career ahead.
As well as, the BCCI supports to every person, every cricketer.
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And as you were a match referee, so which one was your favorite match?
There are so many matches, but before under 19 World Cup, there were three matches at Hyderabad and I was a referee.
You know, night cricket is a different, white ball cricket is different, that 2-3 matches I was as a referee it was very nice.
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Credits-
Interviewee- @Shrikant Jadhav
Title- @Prachi Dudhane
Photo Courtesy- @BCCI
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