Orthodox or Unorthodox

I was overjoyed to see Sri Lankan cricket teams recent success in Asia cup final. As an avid cricket watcher I was so pessimistic about victory against Indians and even didn't watch some part of the match thinking that it would end with a sad loosing. Though our batting didn't work as it expected, bowling and fielding gave us one amazing victory against mighty Indian cricket team. When you look at the victory I could see one big difference between Sri Lankan and Indian cricket teams. That is some Sri Lankan cricketers are very unorthodox and while most of Indian cricketers are methodical and orthodox to my opinion. If you look at Sri Lankan cricketers like Sanath Jayasuriya, Muttaiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis and Lasith Malinga they are unique and you can't find this kind of players in every other team. They came to the international arena the way they know how to do it rather than going on methodical guide lines given by some other pundits. Also everybody must give big credit to their coaches not over correcting these players. This reminds me a story happens in my life too. May be this would not fully correlate the above but since this my own blog it wouldn't be a big problem either :).

After the graduation one day I went to the Colombo university to meet one of my friends. Coincidently I met one of our senior most professor's in our mathematics department. He was one of my favorite teachers in my university time and I was so pleased to have a chat with him. He asked me what is I am doing and how is the work going on. I replied him, that I am a software engineer and job is quite boring since it is monotonous. Then he replied me it is monotonous because I am following set of standard procedures and advised me to break those ground rules time to time see how things go, that is what most of the academic researches do.

Anyway congratulations to the Sri Lankan cricket team, it was fun to see this unorthodox players doing well against orthodox players. Hope it will be more fascinating to see battle between Sachin Tendulkar with Sri Lankan unorthodox spinners in coming Indian tour in Sri Lanka.