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   Image Source: https://conceptboard.com First and foremost credit of the idea goes to Amazon Prime Series The Test: An Era for Australia’s Team , based on the journey of redemption of the Australian National Cricket team after the ball-tampering scandal in 2018, aka the Sandpapergate scandal. In the very first episode, Pat Cummins talks about the idea of having a template of being an athlete and being a successful team . It was about the gold-plated era (words of Peter Lalor) of Cricket Australia in the 1990s and 2000s. They were invincible. In the 1990s, watching the foreign players (especially cricketers) was like watching soldiers going to war for each run or each ball. They would never let the opposition take any lead in any game. And by in-the-game, I mean the batting, bowling and fielding. Some of the players from teams like England, South Africa, New Zealand, and of-course Australia would jump on the ball to stop it, which would make a difference in the overall result...

  Playing a sport and becoming a champion, or being called Greatest of All Times, it all starts with having fun in whatever we do and igniting that spark, which says yes, I can do it , aka self-belief . Nobody in the world at the age of 5-6 years, knew that they would be the world record holder of tomorrow. All they thought, was to enjoy for that hour or 45-mins, be with some friends playing or fighting over little things. It is that daily routine of coming together, as friends or family, to learn the fundamentals and also learn the art training to be champions of tomorrow. That is what made them who they are today.  But as time passed, some of them lost their focus halfway around the journey and felt the need for some external yet internal help – generally known as doping . It is nothing less than a murder of sportsmanship, and the core values , on which athleticism is built-on. We are decades into this sports doping crisis and a growing consensus about a central questio...