SURAJ BEGUR

Sports - Cricket…!!!

Sports, the moment the word is said people start thinking the waste of time and need to utilize that time for some fruitful cause. Is playing sports is bad..? If it is not a profession for a person does not have any benefit..?

Wikipedia defines it as - A sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. It is governed by a set of rules or customs. In sports, the key factors are the physical capabilities and skills of the competitor when determining the outcome (winning or losing). This definition has lot of meaning involved in it. For a good human/student/manager, one need to be organized, skillful, committed, strategist, etc. By playing a sport all these can be achieved in simulated manner which can be used for better real purpose. Why should not we spend sometime on sport..?

Sport keeps you physically fit, which now a days kids are lacking and every now and then fall sick. If kid plays sports he can learn how to take defeats and manage themselves. Even elders are lacking physical fitness and sport can improve it. It refreshes one’s mind, give freshness to entire body and can relieved from our frustration. This also makes us to manage ourselves in social environment.

Cricket is a religion in India. But it is often criticized for spoiling people both kids and elders. Kids if they always play without study it harm their career. Elders do betting or ignoring their responsibility watches or play cricket. These are other side of the coin. But for me cricket gave me lot of things in life and am not a professional cricketer. Am from the Kannada medium student and did not have good knowledge of English reading as well as writing. Not ready speak in English and inferiority complex was building. Mother told me to read English news paper especially sports section since me interested in sports. My reading and writing skills improved. But still lacking in spoken English. So started listening to cricket commentary like an obedient student. This helped me to learn spoken English.

By playing Cricket learnt how to be a good team member. It made me keep aside my ego and get adjusted to people. It requires a lot of commitment to be fit and perform. Being committed is most required quality in corporate world. By leading a cricket team able to judge how to get best out of an individual. Again, this helps you when you are working with other team members or leading the team in corporate world. Playing cricket learnt practically ‘change is the only constant in this changing world’. You need to keep on inventing new skills and using it in better manner to be a winning cricketer. So it is in corporate world, need to acquire new skills and use it on daily task to be successful professionally.

It requires a lot of strategy to outperform the opponent team in cricket. Making a strategy to improve quality of work/task and exceed customer expectation. This allows a person to move ahead in corporate world. For the student, one needs to make lot of strategy to study and get good marks. Sometimes you feel frustrated and mentally fatigue. These can be overcome by playing your favorite sports. It creates few moments of sustained cessation, which is attained by yoga or meditation. Yoga makes you more introverts, but sports keeps you extrovert. Both extrovert and introvert are two faces of a valid coin i.e. personality. By playing sports I have earned lots of good friends personally and professionally.

I feel a human being should have at least one sports to be played on a regular basis to reap in many benefits.