High time to go
I have always admired Australian cricketers of the 2000s. Arrogant, aggressive, always on banter mode and brilliant at their game. They dominated the landscape of cricket last seen by the great West Indian side of the 70s by my father. But the quality that I admired most in them was not related to cricket at all. Rather, it was a very peculiar soft skill, which was very different to the general mentality amongst Indians - to leave on a high, where they were could exit on their terms and not become semi retired and pose a headache for selection committees. Of course, the cricketers didn't have much to do after calling it a time as they had finished their careers. Indian cricketers of that time were remarkably great too, especially the batsmen. They were fabulous at the game but their exits were lingering, following the path of professionals whose skills (fitness and fielding in particular) had been outdated. This left a bad taste in the mouth and rather soiled their legacies t...