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Learning's from Cricketers
Cricket is rich with those tales that
encapsulate men and their deeds
in the pithiest of phrases.
The biggest names, so the rule
goes, should command the
biggest stories.
Not many of them retain their
composure, retain their poise, and
are serene, on their achievements

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Lets examine situations of reactions versus respond

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Grace was bowled early in one of the innings,
he promptly turned around and rebuilt the
stumps, rather than walking off.
He was neatly putting the bails back, when
the flabbergasted bowler asked him’ what
the hell was he doing’.
Grace calmly tossed the ball back to him
and took his guard gain and, words to this
effect said’ there is a big crowd out here, lad,
and they’ve come to watch me bat, and not
you ball.

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Greg Thomas

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Viv Richards, haughty, smoldering person, had a select few only, who got better of him.
One such attempt was made by Greg Thomas of England, who beat Richards, time
after time, in a county contest.
Eventually Thomas walked to and, loading his, words with as much sarcasm, as he
could muster, spat,’ its round, its red and you’re supposed to damned hit it’.
Thomas next ball was disappeared like a tracer bullet, over his head.
Still on the up, it soared over the new pavilion at Taunton and eventually spiraled down
into the River Tone.
Thomas, hands on the hips, stood seething.
Gum chewing Richard's, sidled up, heads down, gardening. ‘ You know what it looks
like, he said’ You go and find it’

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Steve Waugh came close to the best cricket quip of all time.
Australians, the eventual champions, were on the brink of going out of the
1999, World Cup, when he chipped a regulation catch to Herschelle Gibbs of
South Africa.
Gibbs, too eager to celebrate, lost control and floored the ball.
Steve went on to make 120 and won the match for Australia.
After the match, Steve approached the crestfallen Gibbs, and rubbed in his
despair.’ You’ve just gone and dropped the World Cup mate’.
The truth was good, but not that good.

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Sachin Tendulkar on the other hand doesn't get involved in bar room brawls,
he is a happily married man, and is a private person.
An anecdote, which is worth a candle, and which probably confirms, why there
are only few others like him, is worth sharing.
Aqip Javed was hell bent on tormenting Sachin, more with abuses and less
with the ball, at Sharjah, in a match which was played, in the early stages of
Sachin’s debut.
Aqib, was determined to unsettle this newcomer, revealed later, that Tendulkar,
after clipping the ball away for a single, trotted down to his end and asked
with all the naïve of youth’
Why, are you being rude to me? You’re only upsetting yourself’
And do we now understand that why Sachin is rated the best batsman after
Sir Bradman, in the world today.

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After completing 17,000 runs in the 50-over format of the game, Sachin Tendulkar scored his
45th ODI century off just 81 balls. Earlier, Tendulkar finally touched the magical 17,000-run mark
in ODI when he completed the formality of scoring 7 runs needed to reach another mile stone in
his glittering career.
Sanath Jayasuriya is second on the list with 13,377 runs while Aussie captain Ricky Ponting
has a lot of catching up to do.
The moment Tendulkar attained that mark the packed vociferous Rajiv Gandhi Stadium crowd
jumped out of their seats and erupted in jubilation.
The 36-year-old scored the requisite 7 runs to put another feather in his cap, which is already
full of feathers but still managing to have some more. The Indian batting legend has 45
One-day hundreds and 91 ODI fifties under his belt.
The diminutive Mumbaikar, who made his ODI debut Pakistan in 1989, is already way ahead
of his contemporaries when it comes to accumulating runs.
Rated as the world's best batsman after Australian legend Sir Donald Bradman, Tendulkar has
an awe-inspiring Test record. In the whopping 159 matches that he has played thus far,
Tendulkar has scored 12,773 runs at an average of 54.58.
The veteran batsman has scored 42 hundreds and 53 half centuries in the longer format of the
game.

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What was the secret.
He concentrated 100 % in whatever he was supposed to do, without getting
affected by adversaries.
His intellect controlled his mind.
Is that true for us too? Ponder!!!!

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I shall do so much in the years to come,
But what have I done today?
I shall give my gold in a princely sum,
But what did I give today?
I shall build a mansion in the sky,
But what have I built today?
It’s sweet in idle dreams to bask,
But if not I, who shall do the task?
Yes, this is the question, each soul must ask:
What have I done today?

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