Sports Development: A template for amplifying athlete(s) or team(s) performance.
Image Source: https://conceptboard.com First and foremost credit of the idea goes to Amazon Prime Series The Test: An Era for Australia’s Team , based on the journey of redemption of the Australian National Cricket team after the ball-tampering scandal in 2018, aka the Sandpapergate scandal. In the very first episode, Pat Cummins talks about the idea of having a template of being an athlete and being a successful team . It was about the gold-plated era (words of Peter Lalor) of Cricket Australia in the 1990s and 2000s. They were invincible. In the 1990s, watching the foreign players (especially cricketers) was like watching soldiers going to war for each run or each ball. They would never let the opposition take any lead in any game. And by in-the-game, I mean the batting, bowling and fielding. Some of the players from teams like England, South Africa, New Zealand, and of-course Australia would jump on the ball to stop it, which would make a difference in the overall result and perf