Have you ever realized, why Pakistanis kiss the cricket pitch after completing a century or why Sachin Tendulkar raises his hands and bat after his every phenomenal performance ? Or let me ask you this way. Why did Aamir Sohail showed Venky his place in '96 World Cup match and what was all behind Venky's response on the very next ball?
The answer to all such questions is emotions and the role they play on the field.
Emotions go hand in hand with sports. Any sport lets your emotions come out freely but being an avid cricket follower, we will talk about emotions juxtaposed with cricket . The excitement & the rushing adrenaline makes you vent everything out on the field. To win a match for himself and his country is a thing of tremendous pride for a cricketer and these emotions act as a catalyst to help players achieve this goal.
But there is a twist in the tale. These emotions can be of three types.
Firstly, there can be controlled emotions of the likes of Rahul Dravid or
Jacques Kallis, who don't often show it but mostly let their bats do the talking.
After scoring the double hundred( first of his career)at Centurion, Kallis' facial expressions showed how much it meant to him and how much he values it. After being one of the best all rounders of the modern cricket and playing for more than a decade, he achieved this milestone which he must have been waiting for since long.
Another type can be uncontrollable emotions. Remember the slap gate incident in IPL which doesn't really need much explanation or the famous monkey jumps of Javed Miandad, imitating Kiran More, in 1992 World Cup.List can go on and on.
To make things lighter on field, there is a third type, which is humorous emotions.
The incidents which fall under this category are : dance of Sresanth after hitting Andre Nel for a six in S.Africa and the antics of Billy Bowden, the famous trans Tasmania umpire. After all, cricket is not complete without umpires.
To sum it up, I would say , if you follow cricket quite often, you will observe these emotions and they will always keep you attached to it and its this abundance of the emotions which make you fall in love with this beautiful game every single day.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
JUXTAPOSED : Emotions and Cricket
Have you ever realized, why Pakistanis kiss the cricket pitch after completing a century or why Sachin Tendulkar raises his hands and bat after his every phenomenal performance ? Or let me ask you this way. Why did Aamir Sohail showed Venky his place in '96 World Cup match and what was all behind Venky's response at the very next ball?
The answer to all such questions is emotions and the role they play on the field.
Emotions go hand in hand with sports. Any sport lets your emotions come out freely but being an avid cricket follower, we will talk about emotions juxtaposed with cricket . The excitement & the rushing adrenaline makes you vent everything out on the field. To win a match for himself and his country is a thing of tremendous pride for a cricketer and these emotions act as a catalyst to help players achieve this goal.
But there is a twist in the tale. These emotions can be of three types.
Firstly, there can be controlled emotions of the likes of Rahul Dravid or
Jacques Kallis, who don't often show it but mostly let their bats do the talking.
After scoring the double hundred( first of his career)at Centurion, Kallis' facial expressions showed how much it meant to him and how much he values it. After being one of the best all rounders of the modern cricket and playing for more than a decade, he achieved this milestone which he must have been waiting for since long.
Another type can be uncontrollable emotions. Remember the slap gate incident in IPL which doesn't really need much explanation or the famous monkey jumps of Javed Miandad, imitating Kiran More, in 1992 World Cup.List can go on and on.
To make things lighter on field, there is a third type, which is humorous emotions.
The incidents which fall under this category are : dance of Sresanth after hitting Andre Nel for a six in S.Africa and the antics of Billy Bowden, the famous trans Tasmania umpire. After all, cricket is not complete without umpires.
To sum it up, I would say , if you follow cricket quite often, you will observe these emotions and they will always keep you attached to it and its this abundance of the emotions which make you fall in love with this beautiful game every single day.
The answer to all such questions is emotions and the role they play on the field.
Emotions go hand in hand with sports. Any sport lets your emotions come out freely but being an avid cricket follower, we will talk about emotions juxtaposed with cricket . The excitement & the rushing adrenaline makes you vent everything out on the field. To win a match for himself and his country is a thing of tremendous pride for a cricketer and these emotions act as a catalyst to help players achieve this goal.
But there is a twist in the tale. These emotions can be of three types.
Firstly, there can be controlled emotions of the likes of Rahul Dravid or
Jacques Kallis, who don't often show it but mostly let their bats do the talking.
After scoring the double hundred( first of his career)at Centurion, Kallis' facial expressions showed how much it meant to him and how much he values it. After being one of the best all rounders of the modern cricket and playing for more than a decade, he achieved this milestone which he must have been waiting for since long.
Another type can be uncontrollable emotions. Remember the slap gate incident in IPL which doesn't really need much explanation or the famous monkey jumps of Javed Miandad, imitating Kiran More, in 1992 World Cup.List can go on and on.
To make things lighter on field, there is a third type, which is humorous emotions.
The incidents which fall under this category are : dance of Sresanth after hitting Andre Nel for a six in S.Africa and the antics of Billy Bowden, the famous trans Tasmania umpire. After all, cricket is not complete without umpires.
To sum it up, I would say , if you follow cricket quite often, you will observe these emotions and they will always keep you attached to it and its this abundance of the emotions which make you fall in love with this beautiful game every single day.
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