Friday, April 20, 2007

The Australian Cricket Team

There is something unique about their team that I don't see in any other team. First off, whenever they play cricket, it always seems that the other people are playing bad. Or my perception has to change. They always play good. Their body language, their commitment to cricket, their vibrancy, their care to not underestimate any team etc. all fascinate me without end.

Whenever they are batting they always make sure that they get as many runs as possible from every over. When they are bowling they always make sure to bowl as many dot balls as possible. That is a kind of micro-focus. Probably they have proved that it is necessary to achieve excellence. They never postpone things during match. Their principle seems to be that coming from vedas: The current ball is the only real ball.There is no previous ball and there is no next ball. Play the current ball fully as if it is the last ball. Wow!! I have heard this somewhere! In the book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.

Anyway, Australians are undisputedly the champions of the world (in Cricket, of course). We, Indians are really second rate people.