What to Learn from a sport Like cricket!!

What to learn from a sport like cricket!

                 

Fresh from the gangnam Gayle celebration – which is a prelude to the festive season ahead – it’s time to look back on how certain necessities can create an invention and therefore a trend. West Indies Cricket – rising from ashes – has proved that it is the circumstances which can make or break a progress and thus a success story. The so called cricket pundits might not have even had the weirdest of thoughts of WI making it all the way! Their imagination would have been refueled when WI did not win even a single match in the group stage. But the bottom line was they qualified and had the self belief to make it to where they made it!

Freaky accidents sometimes lead to an invention and thus a new phenomenon. Virendar Sehwag made his debut as a middle order batsman in Test matches in SA and scored his century (105) in Bloemfontein. But his promotion and experiment as an opening batsman made by the then Indian captain Sourav Ganguly paid rich dividends in reaping bountiful rewards. Sehwag (the only Indian who now) holds the record of two triple centuries in tests and one double century in ODIs. Every team fears even an out of form Sehwag because he generally does not depend on form to score but just follow the simple “see ball, hit ball” philosophy.

Funny experiments do yield rich dividends which might result in an ultimatum. But if you do not try you are not doing anything. Experiment of giving the last over to Joginder Sharma (with one over in the bank for bajji) in the T20 final (2007) when Team India had 12 runs to play with might be the funniest move ever made by MSD but as they say rest is all history and we were the deserved winners of the World T20 in its first edition. Even now when we see a tight last over to be bowled we ask ourselves where Joginder is! It’s the same case even in the 2011 final when MSD came up the order to smother Murali’s spin (as Murali has played alongside MSD in IPLs for CSK). It’s that brave move of coming up before Yuvi (Player of the World cup) which proved to be a masterstroke which made Sachin proud of becoming a complete cricketer.

From a psychological point of view, necessities and timely moves might be either accidental or incidental. But if one can live with it, persevere and take the responsibility of why it was implemented, it might result in a new inspiration for the years to come! If you succeed you will become the leader and if you fail you will ultimately be the guide for others!