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What is a team foul, how is it different from a personal foul?

Why do you care about a team/cricketer?

  • NOTE: I  have rambled a bit in the description. I will organise my thoughts  better when I get the time and post some of them as an answer to my own  question. This question is addressed to people who are 'passionate' about 'their' team. Why do you 'feel' for a team/cricketer? Why are you passionate about the team/players? What 'connection' do you share with it? Why do you get affected by it? What does it add to your life? What's in it for you? If  xyz team win the tournament/worl cup/league etc - what does it change  in your life? The players/sponsors/channels get money (because of us) -  but what do you get apart from the feeling 'we won' - what the hell did  you 'win'? If anything, you lost - lost time that could be spent on actually 'winning' in life. I'm not saying don't watch cricket - watch it - but within balance. Though I'd much rather PLAY cricket! I don't like being a spectator. I get it when people are passionate about playing cricket. I am. Represented my school/university and was selected for U19 trials for my country. But,  I don't get the religious devotion to teams (same way I don't get  people devoted to a 'brand' - they don't care about me, why should I  care about them?!) Who cares whether Sachin scores a 300? Or whether Delhi Daredevils win the IPL? Or some other record.... what does it change in MY life? Does Sachin care about me? Will he pay my bills or sit my exam for me or go to  office for me? Why should I care about him/what he does? It's just artificial enthusiasm/conncetion created by hype/marketing men. They want you to care so you watch the games/buy the merchandise etc = they get rich. I get it if it's a local team - you know the players/it's a small community/school team etc - but  when it's big name players earning millions of $$$ - why do you care? Is  it because people have nothing to do with their time/lives - so they  'consume' sports/tv? Do you do it to fit in - so you have something to  talk about/socialise? Or do you do it - becuase thats what everyone does and thats what you've done sicne your childhood? I'm  not saying don't watch cricket at all - I just advocating balance -  and being  passionate about YOUR life and committing to your priorities. Maybe  thats what separates succesful people from the masses of  nameless  statistics/sheep. You say everyone is a statistic - true, but  some statistics are better than others. I know how I feel about this. I'd like to know how you feel about it. NOTE:  We all have personal preferences. Me prefering x and you prefering y,  does not make one better than the other - just different - we choose  what we feel is 'best' for our own objectives/subjective functionality.  I'm not asking this to judge you - just to improve my understanding of  people who do this. Maybe if I 'understand them' I'll respect them.

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    I'm passionate about the Australian cricket team because it's an international sport that Australia does extremely well. I was lucky enough to to be at the height of my cricket obsession at a time when Australia fielded arguably the greatest team to ever play the game. Steve Waugh captained the Untouchables and for a while they were. The Waugh's, Gilchrist, Warne, McGrath and others made up one of the greatest teams to play any sport anywhere. They were just amazing. What made me really passionate about them early on was the fact that Australia's test players are all given good exposure in the domestic competition before they get given a baggy green. I watched Gilchrist, for example, prove he was a force to be reckoned with and when he finally got a chance at test level I was really pleased for him. It made me much more invested in the players.

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I don't know if you are still interested in answers, but I'll still go ahead and answer this. First off, congrats on getting selected for U19 trials. All the best if you are still actively playing, especially if it is for India :) The part about "Why should I follow x, does he care about me?" I had/have dreams. I'm 23, and cannot bat in a local tennis ball match to save my life, but the child inside me dreams of playing for India, and drinking in the applause of the packed stadium after making a century on debut (but for some damn reason, its always against Australia at MCG. The logical me would choose Chepauk stadium any day). I want to be the one that hit that winning six in the 2011 WC finals. Not just that, being selfish, I want to be the Steve Waugh on one leg at Headingley, and against Ambrose and Walsh at Sabina Park. Reality: I'm from a middle class family, academics is the one of the few things I have been good at, and I have never played cricket professionally. So what have my favorite cricketers (Sachin, Kumble, Dravid, Laxman, Ganguly, Sehwag, Robin Singh, Dhoni, Steve Waugh, Gilchrist, Symonds, and lots more) given me? When they perform their heroics on the field, they create more dreams for me. They let me close my eyes and imagine myself performing their latest awesome act. I can provide for myself quite easily, I don't want their money, but I desperately need these dreams to feed my inner child. Artificial hype Not so sure. When I was young and impressionable, there was hardly any hype. Without on field fireworks, ads would have been fluff. Today, a lot of tournaments thrive on hype, but a large majority can see past that . Does Sachin care about me? Will he pay my bills or sit my exam for me or go to  office for me? Why should I care about him/what he does? Maybe you should, maybe you shouldn't. I like the way he carries himself in public, on and off the field. I think he is a great example of how to handle success. So I care to notice what he does. But definitely not to the extent of his paying my bills or sitting the exam for me. He failed his class X board exams, so I won't trust him to pass. And if I decided to spend time watching an awesome match instead of studying, I usually accept that losing marks is an outcome. This has more to do with the way we are raised and less with the cricketer. This is true of any cricketer, not just Sachin. As for team, that's a tough one. Some people are awesome, but most people support their country rather than the best one out there. That's why I support India. But my second favorite team used to be Australia, for their awesomeness till about 2008. I always loved Pakistan for the raw talent they kept churning out. Never liked West Indies or Sri Lanka though. The same explanation holds for the team I support in Ranji (TN). Only when the IPL came around did I actually feel the pressure to justify my choice to myself. Before the tournament started KKR and CSK were the teams I'd have supported, because I lived large portions of my life in Kolkata and Chennai. But CSK won out, first because they were awesome on the field with an imperfect team, and later because of the culture that they slowly built in Chennai. Simple things like a CSK poster in the international terminal at the airport, etc. So, to finish off, there is no reason to follow anything other your job, not even Quora, if you just see it as a waste of time and will not takeaway anything out of it. On the other hand the difference between Sachin's 175 vs Australia (2009) and Dhoni's 91 against Sri Lanka (2011 WC final) was the ability to handle pressure at crunch situations. Or to be neutral make that Klusener's 31* and Steve Waugh's 120* in the 1999 World cup.

Pranesh Pandurangan

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