I have always been a great cricket fan. I believe situations from cricket can be easily applied to your personal life. The most recent example of this is the book - 'The Winning Way' by Harsha Bhogle and Amita Bhogle.
Many times when I used to be in a dilemma or was looking for motivation, I used to think about a similar situation in a cricketing field and visualize what would I do there. And this has helped me many times in clearing my mind and showing me a way. Since last few years, I forgot about this exercise. But yesterday, when I had read the first few pages of 'The Winning Way', my mind sprang back to form. As it is said in cricket, class is permanent, form is temporary. :) Today I was able to find an analogy between cricketing world and personal relationships especially marriage.
In a marriage, you can think of a couple as a team. Their sole intention should be to take their team to greater heights. For this to happen, the prerequisites are the same as in any sport - team harmony, chemistry, respect for each other's ideas, supporting each other in good and bad times. Differences can crop in between members of a team, but in a team, each member need to trust the the other player's thoughts. When coming to a decision, one should always think of what is better for a team and marriage. Like no player is bigger than a team, spouse's individual aspirations are not bigger than marriage. One should be ready to make adjustments to do what is better for a team or marriage.
Here, you can think of parents, relatives, friends as support staff in cricket. In some marriages, they initially play the role of selectors. :) These people will help us, support us in running the team, but ultimately it is the couple who has to act. So they have to use their best judgement and use the help from the support staff. As a successful team requires a good support staff, in a marriage also, one also needs their parents, friends, relatives and other close ones.
The children would be the new members of the team. The couple will have to guide the new team members so they can form a successful team of their own in future and they can be the support staff for them.
Having said so, the life never ceases to amaze me. You can learn so much by looking around you, in this case cricket.
Some may say that this post was more related to team building than cricket, but since I got this analogy when thinking about cricket, hence the title.
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