Though I have kept cricket out of my blog as much as possible, it is hard to not talk about the learnings I have earned after watching yesterday India's thrilling 1-wicket win against Australia. To start with I have to honestly accept that after watching cricket for 20 great years the game still gives me goosebumps and the tension like I had when I watched the HERO CUP semi-final against South Africa. Somethings doesn't change and similarly the passion of cricket has lived all these years in my heart.
But yesterday's match brought out a array of emotions about life. To start with is self-belief. In time of pain, in time of anguish some of us start to doubt once ability. Even though our abilities are still the same, we have the same range of shots, a small pain can bring doubts in our mind. Laxman demonstrate just how to over come physical shortcomings to play to his true potential.
What was more interesting was Laxman's approach. Things were much relax for India when they required 90-odd runs with the last 2 wickets remaining. Relax because no one expected to win, the opponents were smelling victory and hence the pressure on Laxman and Ishant was really less. Laxman grabbed this slim opportunity and injected slowly confidence into Ishant by giving him all the strike. When we, mortals, sitting on our computer were fuming why Laxman is giving all the strike to Ishant, it was somewhat a calculated plan to make Ishant get his confidence. And as India reached closer, it was not harder for Ishant to play the bowl but for Aussies to dislodge him.
Even though it is just Cricket jibber-jabber, I learned the true value of trust. Irrespective of a player having an ability to perform certain activity, if he or she is part of the team, TRUST is of the utmost importance. Also from any team-players point of view, earning this TRUST is very important. We go about doing our duties every single day as an individual, but at the end we impact a team. Team can be our family, our friends, our colleagues.
At the end, when things were hanging to a thin-thread, Laxman had a low moment in an otherwise great innings. Losing his temper and an otherwise cool head Laxman gave viewers a moment of laughter. We all (especially myself) should at all time keep in mind that everyone are not the same, we all think differently, we all function differently.
We can take away so many things from yesterday's match. We can sit back and read so many articles on this victory...somehow somewhere while reading all these articles, I felt there is more than what meets the eye. The real essence of victory...our learnings!
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