Cricket And Identity Essay

What is the game of Cricket? Is it really possible for a sport to change your identity? Cricket is an outdoor game. It is played between two teams. One is the bowling side and the other is the batting side. There are eleven players in each team. According to Sporteology, cricket is the second most popular sport in the world with 2-3 billion fans all over the world. For many peoples, sports have been one of the reasons that are shaped identity. For me as well, I started playing this sport at the age of eight and I still remember that at first, I used to play in front of my house with my brother and a few fellow friends. When I started playing the ball game, I didn’t know much about the rules, but still I used to play and always try to learn more about this game. When I turned 11, at that time, I used to bring water for a player to drink in …show more content…
It not only helps me to understand, but also taught me how someone should act in their lives. One of the first lessons I learned from this sport was that you can’t take risks and be destructive. In cricket, if you want to keep your wickets in hand, you can’t take risks and be violent, and if you want to get aggressive and increase your run-rate, then you will have the risk of wickets falling. Most of the time, this applied in our lives as well because we always want to achieve success and we try to get success through short-cuts or we get hostile if we don’t get that success in our life. Some people eventually get success and those who get violent will just ruin their lives. In my life, I always try to maintain my balance of getting aggressive and tried to stay calm. Because of this sport, I somehow manage my attitude and try to stay far away from being violent because being aggressive is a disease, I can’t achieve anything in my life with