India had reached the final of the Cricket World Cup and Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men had gathered in Mumbai for what would be the biggest match of their careers, come April 2.Next morning, the team got together at Wankhede Stadium at 9.Said Dr Czeisler, "Asking athletes to play on minimal sleep is the same as asking them to play with one hand tied behind their back. Nitin resisted. Sachin could not sleep and in his hotel room in Sydney, he spent time honing his skills.. .In an athlete’s world, sleep is synonymous to rejuvenation, recovery and better performance.”In 2011, professor and director of Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical College, Dr Charles Czeisler got a desperate call from the Boston Bruins — a professional ice hockey team based in Massachusetts.”Patel called up several doctors and finally handed Yuvraj a sleeping pill — of the same salt, but a different colour.In an athlete’s plastic injection molding machine Suppliers world, sleep is synonymous to rejuvenation, recovery and better performance.

"I went over to Gary.”That night, the Bruins lifted the Stanley Cup and even though none could tell for sure if it was ‘Sleep Doctor’ Czeisler’s effect or purely talent and skills, a significant aspect was looked into in a team’s preparations. Sport scientists say that talent, aggression and skills can come to nought if a player goes without sleep for long durations, while psychologists assert that an athlete needs as much sleep — if not more — as new parents do."So relax your mind and go there. A sleeping tablet would be it, but a different one. Then at least four hours for some meditation. Very peaceful."He said the injection was a worthy idea but what if it made me drowsy the whole day. Sleep."Obviously Gary wanted us to be fresh about the final, he didn’t want me moaning about sleep. The Bruins were one game away from their first Stanley Cup title in 39 years, and wanted to cover every base. Their man-in-form, all-rounder Yuvraj Singh had overslept that morning.In Yuvraj’s words, he "had the best sleep of the tournament that night” and a few hours later, India turned the dream of a billion people into reality. I told him I was struggling to get sleep."I think indirectly when your mind is at peace, then sleep automatically or naturally comes.”Tennis great Roger Federer and basketball star LeBron James famously sleep for an average of 12 hours a night, while sprint king Usain Bolt and tennis ace Venus Williams get up to 10 hours a night. It’s making them do something we know degrades their reaction time. They spend all this time practising but never get to sleep. Yuvraj Singh It was the night of March 31, 2011. He asked the team to cancel their morning practice session and take a nap instead! He wanted them to catch up on lost sleep time. If your mind is disturbed and too much anxiety, anger of course these are very bad for sleep.30 am with lights on!

Sachin TendulkarThe story dates back to January 4, 1992 a day before Sachin scored his first Test hundred in Australia. Sleeping pills were useless,” Yuvraj recalls in his biography The Test Of My Life. Federer has said, "If I don’t sleep 11 to 12 hours per day, it’s not right."His Holiness, do you have any good meditation techniques to fall asleep?” Smith had asked.The recent intensely-fought India vs Australia cricket Test series where tempers frayed and accusations flew thick and fast left insomniac Australia skipper Steve Smith searching "for peace for mind”. So he called (physiotherapist) Nitin Patel over and told him he was to give me an injection that night for a good night’s rest.Was it fatigue, pressure or simply the relief of having reached the final?Yuvraj arrived at the ground two hours later, expecting his team mates to have a go at him.At the venue of the last Test in Dharamshala, Smith asked Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on "secrets to a sound sleep” in a battle-like scenario. No one in the Indian team was spared for coming late, with jokes and banter flying in!Everyone was unusually silent though and Yuvraj headed to coach Gary Kirsten.Sachin and 12 sleepless nightsRecently, cricketer Sourav Ganguly had everyone in splits when he "complained” how room mate Sachin Tendulkar "kept him awake” on most nights as he practised in front of a mirror at 2.. Usually, I spend nine hours sleep.The Dalai Lama replied: "That I don’t know.30 am for a training session, but one man was missing.In an age where analytics, technical expertise and planning take precedence over everything else, Dr Czeisler offered the simplest of advice.Most of us would pick India’s Cup victory as our favourite part from this story, but ask the experts and they will point to a tiny five-letter word

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