5 Life Lessons From Sandpaper Gate

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Cricket Australia banned Warner and Smith for a year and young Bancroft for nine months due to their involvement in ball tampering. Ball tampering as an isolated offense doesn’t demand such harsh punishments. But the entire sledging saga that occurred before this incident and Australia’s ‘Win, Win, Win’ attitude snowballed this incident into something that is not expected from a country’s sporting idols, cheating. The guilty are serving their sentence and it is time for the cricketing world and the world, in general, to learn from this incident.

Here are five life lessons that youngsters, corporate executives, and cricket fans can learn from what is known as Sandpaper Gate.

#1 Be Perceptive

Blocking oneself from worldview, living in a bubble, limiting one’s thoughts, and looking at something only from one vantage point can prove fatal. This way, you are not aware of the other side of the coin. When you are perceptive, you open your mind to see the world from different perspectives. Everything seems different from a bird’s eye and that from a worm’s eye.

If the three people would’ve been more perceptive, the idea would’ve been shunned. How on Earth were they supposed to get away with using a foreign object when there were cameras all over capturing their every move? Probably, they thought ball tampering isn’t something new and in desperation, they went ahead and did it without even looking at it from someone else’s perspective.