Admitting that his present position of being the Indian males’s cricket group’s head coach is all about delivering the World Cup, former India captain Rahul Dravid has harassed that folks and youngsters ought to have a look at sport past the lens of attaining excellence within the sporting area.
“There is a lot of focus on winning trophies, winning tournaments and winning matches and you know, in the job that I am currently, that is the only demand: to win the World Cup. That’s just a very small part of what sport does. Actually I don’t even think that is what sport is all about,” Dravid mentioned in the course of the inaugural version of Making Sport Work Forum, an initiative for a cohesive effort in the direction of improvement of sport via company social duty.
“When parents take their young kid to play sport, I don’t think anyone could start off playing a sport to win trophies or medals for the country. I think the aspiration has to be about living a healthier, fitter lifestyle; looking at the lessons that sport can teach you,” Dravid mentioned.
“There are so many things sport teaches you just on and off the field: camaraderie, friendship, it teaches you about life. Life is about sharing, life is about partnerships. Nothing teaches you better than sport on a sporting field. There are so many lessons that we learn in a classroom but there are so many things that a classroom can’t really teach you. That’s where a sports field plays a huge role.”
Citing the instance of solely “310-odd boys and an even lesser number of girls” having adorned India’s Test cap within the 90 years since India performed its first Test match, Dravid harassed on the necessity for sport as a way for societal change.
“Be it confidence building, communication abilities, just a healthy lifestyle as well for so many boys and girls. Parents and children should really focus on all that. That’s really what sport should be about. Focusing on so many other benefits that you can gain from sport,” Dravid mentioned.
“As a by-product of that, if you win medals and trophies, that’s fantastic. Sport is a means to build communities, to get people of different religions, socio-economic backgrounds, castes; in building all that, sport can play an incredible role.”
The discussion board – a three way partnership by Sports and Society Accelerator and Meraki Sport & Entertainment – noticed high executives throughout the company world sharing concepts about involving sport extra as a part of the CSR initiatives. A report titled “CSR and Sports in India Report 2023” was additionally launched in the course of the occasion.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com