It is common for players to follow the advice of experts and coaches to lose that nervousness before big matches. However, during the 2011 ODI World Cup, the then mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton made a strange suggestion to the Team India players.
Paddy Upton had advised the Team India players to have sex before the match. He has made this startling revelation in his book, ‘The Barefoot Coach’.
Upton, in his book, wrote that this advice of his angered coach Gary Kirsten. Later he had to apologize for the same.
For the unversed, Upton was the mental conditioning coach of the Indian team from 2008 to 2011, with Gary Kirsten as the head coach of the team.
Surprisingly, Upton has also written that during the preparation of the Champions Trophy in 2009, he was developing the notes for the players in which he gave a detailed account of the benefits of sex.