Cricket: A Personal Passion

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The author shares their personal love for cricket and how it provides them with a sense of peace and relaxation. They discuss their experiences playing the game and how not taking it too seriously has helped maintain their enthusiasm.

I am what’s known as a cricket tragic. Not because I’m any good at the game. I have always just enjoyed playing, watching, and reading the scores in the newspaper or on the internet. I inhale cricketing biographies as a lighthearted filling between serious tomes. For some reason, the game provides me with a sense of peace, unwinding the tension life creates. I even enjoy fielding nowadays. Well – daydreaming in the field and looking at the sky, or the mountains.

Presenting as a virtual fielder - not effectively stopping or catching anything. I didn’t play much at school – I was better in the water. I dabbled a bit at university and then much more when I lived in England, where village cricket in summer is weaved into the DNA of a certain rural demographic along with Church spires and the pub. Perversely, not playing the game seriously at any level has helped preserve my love of it. My enthusiasm was never absorbed by games that took the whole weekend or entire afternoons in the outfield. Playing cricket has always been an option rather than an obligatio

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