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28 Apr 10 at 11:43
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Is it too late to start playing cricket??
Hi everybody i am viswa. I am from india and i am really mad at cricket!!. So when i was studying school ( about 16 or 17 years old ) i had an hernia operation and doctors advise me to take rest and not to join any cricket coaching so i became depressed and eventually i joined a college so now i am 20 years old( I turned 20 last month! ) and i really wanna start playing cricket by joining any academy. Is it too late to start??... Please advise and thanks in advance
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28 Apr 10 at 11:50
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28 Apr 10 at 12:08
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It's never too late to start, but you must be realistic in your ambitions. It would be very hard indeed to make it as a professional player, but not impossible to become a decent club cricketers with lots of success.
28 Apr 10 at 13:06
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The great bodybuilder, Ronnie Coleman, in one of his training videos said " Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights", in his own style. In cricket terms that translates to "Everybody wants to be a professional cricketer, but nobody is willing to put in the hard work needed to get there". So really, your goals and ambitions in cricket are constrained by yourself.
10,000 hours or 10,000 reps just to get one skill perfected is a huge investment of your time. The experts reckon this is what it takes.
The only saving grace these days is that the age barrier is getting pushed further and further away, albeit slowly. Dirk Nannes made his first class debut at around 30 years of age and got his first gig at international level at about 32 years of age. He is currently 33 and bowls above 150 km/h.
SO really if you want to go all the way, better start chipping away at your 10,000 hours/reps. No easy road.
dear sir,
I am 24 years old. i have played for clubs abroad and have some man of the match certificates too. is there any chance of me to join and play for the cricket team in india.. i could only find u-19 selections. what should i do if the same is possible.
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It's never too late to start, but you must be realistic in your ambitions. It would be very hard indeed to make it as a professional player, but not impossible to become a decent club cricketers with lots of success.
The great bodybuilder, Ronnie Coleman, in one of his training videos said " Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights", in his own style. In cricket terms that translates to "Everybody wants to be a professional cricketer, but nobody is willing to put in the hard work needed to get there". So really, your goals and ambitions in cricket are constrained by yourself.
There was a good article posted by someone on this recently (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/839179...)
10,000 hours or 10,000 reps just to get one skill perfected is a huge investment of your time. The experts reckon this is what it takes.
The only saving grace these days is that the age barrier is getting pushed further and further away, albeit slowly. Dirk Nannes made his first class debut at around 30 years of age and got his first gig at international level at about 32 years of age. He is currently 33 and bowls above 150 km/h.
SO really if you want to go all the way, better start chipping away at your 10,000 hours/reps. No easy road.
I corrected that link, this one should work:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/839179...
dear sir,
I am 24 years old. i have played for clubs abroad and have some man of the match certificates too. is there any chance of me to join and play for the cricket team in india.. i could only find u-19 selections. what should i do if the same is possible.
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