Many people believe in superstitions and think it brings good luck and bad luck
However, many don't believe in it. It varies among people.
For example many people believe that a black cat crossing their path would bring bad luck to them.
So then they change their routes. Some people believe in this while some don't.
Different religions have different sorts of superstitions which some believe and some don't.
Sports personalities around the world like cricketers, tennis players, etc have some of the most strange beliefs.
In India cricket is like a religion.
Cricketers have their own superstitions too. I will tell you about 9 such cricketers' superstitions.
1. Indian cricketers all wear jerseys with numbers.
Players have freedom to pick their favorite numbers as per their choice.
Many find their birthdate to be lucky for them. Its their choice.
Just like many people use their birthdates in their email id and passwords.
Similarly Yuvraj Singh’s number 12 was chosen since his birthday falls on the 12 of December,
and he believes that it is his lucky number.
MS Dhoni picked number ‘7’ as it is his birthday on 7th July.
2. Sourav Ganguly is former captain of India. He was an amazing captain and an amazing player as well.
He not only wore numerous rings on his fingers, multiple chains,
but Ganguly always made sure that he had his Guru’s photograph in his pocket whenever he was playing.
He believed that this brought him luck for his batting and captaincy skills.
3. Ravichandran Ashwin believes that his bag is lucky.
You may be wondering what bag? Remember in 2011 when India won the world cup,
Ashwin played only 2 matches.
But he always carried a bag to the stadium.
He believed that his bag brought luck to the Indian team and we won the World Cup.
Irrespective of whether he was playing the match or not, he always sat with his bag. He was happy when the team won.
He carried on the same superstition.
The contents in the bag were not important, the bag might be empty even but he believed it brought luck.
4. Rahul Dravid also has his own superstitions.
Generally people wear their gloves first but before going out to bat, Dravid followed the rule of wearing the right pad first and then the left pad.
Then when he went out to play, he played well. This was his belief.
He never used a new bat before a new series, instead he always used his old bat.
Some players have a habit of changing to a new bats after every series.
Dravid believes that his bat is lucky, so he never changes the bat for a new series.
5. Zaheer Khan is India's amazing fast bowler who has taken many wickets.
Zaheer always has his lucky yellow handkerchief during the matches.
It was his superstition that carrying his yellow handkerchief brings him good luck.
6. Spinner Anil Kumble has an interesting superstition.
Remember the historic test match when Anil Kumble took 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan in 1999?
During this match Kumble had an interesting experience. Let me tell you.
Whenever a bowler goes to bowl, they remove their sweater and cap and hand it over to the umpire.
Kumble had a strange experience. Whenever he handed over his sweater and cap to Sachin Tendulkar who then handed it over to the umpire,
Kumble got a wicket.
Whenever, he gave the same directly to the umpire, he did not get a wicket.
He felt Sachin was lucky so he always gave his sweater to give it to the umpire.
7. Virender Sehwag never had any number on his jersey.
Sehwag tried various jersey numbers. But he was never comfortable.
This is why he never had a number on his jersey.
ICC did not agree to Sehwag’s decision of wearing a numberless jersey.
But Sehwag did not care about it.
8. Sachin Tendulkar has been an extraordinary batsman who is world renowned.
He is known as the God of Cricket.
He too has his superstitions. He always used to put on his left pad first.
Then after putting the right pad, he would go out to bat.
Tendulkar would sit in the pavilion wearing both his batting pads even after he got out.
He would remove the gloves and the helmet, but would never remove the pads
as he believed that his team might lose if he takes off his batting pads.
Sachin Tendulkar also did not watch the final moments of the 2011 World Cup final
because he did not want to change his position as it can bring in bad luck for his team.
He came out only after the Indian team won.
The Indian team follows a superstition of saying "We will lose" before any match.
India won the World Cup for the first time in 1983.
Then after 28 years, India won the world cup again in 2011.
Virendra Shewag openly said that in 2011 World cup the team kept saying we would lose in quarters, semi-finals and finals.
When they played the quarter final, they won.
They followed the same ritual of saying we will lose in semi final as well.
This way they finally won the World cup.
We defeated Pakistan too.
They believed that saying we will lose actually brought good luck.
Many of you may believe in such superstitions and many won't. Its upto you.