Battled Anxiety For 10-12 Years: Tendulkar

Mumbai: With mental health no more being a taboo subject in India, more and more top cricketers are opening up on how the stressful environment of international cricket challenged them psychologically. If in 2019 Virat Kohli spoke about how he felt as the loneliest individual in the world after failing on the England tour in 2014, Sachin Tendulkar in 2021 has revealed that he experienced “very high levels of anxiety” in the first half of his career.

Eventually, the cricket legend realised that he needed to prepare himself mentally too before a game. “Over a period of time, I realised that besides preparing physically for a game, you have to prepare yourself mentally also. In my mind, the match started long before Ientered the ground. The anxiety levels were very high,” Tendulkar said in an interaction organised by Unacademy.