In any competitive sport injuries are part and parcel of the game, and cricket is no exception. Players must be cautious. Instead, players often tend to over-indulge, a tendency seen in players right from the grassroot level to international cricket. And this can be dangerous.


Drilling it in: Players of Al-Barkaat MMI school (Kurla) during a practice session before their Giles Shield inter-school match at CCI last year 

It was very distressing to read about a young and promising Bengal cricketer, Ankit Keshri, losing his life on Monday, following a collision with a teammate while going for a catch in a local match in Kolkata. It's very easy to blame the incident on lack of co-ordination between players — Ankit and the player who he collided with, Sourabh Mondal, in this case. However, the real blame for such an incident should go to the negligence of the fielding aspect in a young cricketer's development. The overemphasis on batting and bowling is one of the reasons for this too.