What can we learn from Cricket?

The obvious opening liner to post could have been…”In a Nation of over a billion, where Cricket is a religion and Cricketers (dummy) Gods……”, but then I dont intend to do the obvious . Many of us like to watch cricket. Many of us enjoy watching cricket. I would like to address my question to those who do not play cricket, but take pleasure in watching it. What have we learned from cricket? Rephrasing, what is it that we can learn from cricket?

My observations:

1.  Consider an ODI. Each side takes the field for atmost 50 overs. This means that a team is given upto 300 balls to knock out only 10 off the opposition. Why so?

2. At any point on the field, upto 14 people are willing to get that batsmen out. Why so? (Yeah yeah, I included those 3 umpires as well).

3. Sometimes, there is an appeal…all 11 players appeal, along with a strong crowd of say 20 thousand people. The batsman will not move untill that one man raises his finger…..why is that so?

Will try to answer these questions someday…meanwhile do chip in with your answers. You are free to take any route, even spiritual, to answer these if you like to do so. And congratulations to all of you, India got knocked out of T20 WC. Shame.