What’s In A Number

A cricketers life revolve around numbers ,they are known by the number of runs they scored ,numbers of wickets they have taken ,number of catches ,the position at which they bat ,in fact these numbers are their identity and players do take care of them .

Players choose a number to get better numbers against their name ,superstition or what ever you call it but they do believe in this number game .Yes you guessed it right, I am talking about the sincere effort which the players put while choosing their jersey number from years and the first number which came in every ones mind first is no. 10 which has become synonymous with Sachin Tendulkar .Well theses numbers says a lot over years and now the numbers have reached to triple digits .We have seen in recent IPL Chris Gayle wearing number (333) to signify his highest test number , Muttiah Murliatharan with number (800) which denotes his number of test wickets .Sourav Ganguly seems to be strong believer in this thing as he has changed his number many times ( 99 and 24 the famous ones)and some times even wore different number jersey in same match, another cricketer who has a numerical quirk is Herschelle Gibbs who has had a dalliance with different numbers ,(00 most famous one) is now back with the number 74 which probably denote the year of his birth .M.S Dhoni wear number 7 jersey that signifies the date and month of his birth  .Many players change their numbers in the same tournament , recently Mumbai Indians skipper Harbhajan Singh changed his number to 93 from 3 just to fetch some luck . Amid all there is one man -Virender Sehwag who seems to be fed up of this numbers and chosen not to go with any ,well that may also be a superstition as this thing he has adopted in his comeback !!

Well when one performs to his strength the lesser luck they required but if such numbers helps players to perform to their strengths and achieve big figures to their names then the  spectators wont mind enjoying this number game too and mind you these numbers speaks a lot !!!