Lessons from Cricket || Acharya Prashant

All coaches tell the batsman to keep his eyes firmly on the ball. Even if you don’t intend to play the ball, even if you intend to leave it, yet keep your eyes on the ball. In fact, if you look at good batsmen, they watch the ball even till the moment it goes to the keeper. They would leave the ball and then turn a little back and look the ball hitting the wicket keeper’s gloves.

When you are watching the ball, then you get enough time to play the ball. The ball slows down for you and he has enough time to adjust himself, give himself room and play the shot. Frame after frame he’s able to look at it. That is observation. Now the thing cannot beat you. Now you can see the movement. But even to watch the ball and be a master player, you need stillness of the mind. If your mind is hurried or if you have told yourself that you need to whack the ball over the baller’s head or if you are under pressure to somehow save the match, then you can’t watch the ball. You are occupied with yourselves. To watch, you must be still within.

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