Does a winning cricket team have to be a happy one?

A few nights ago, in my hometown, a small town in the East Midlands, a remarkable sporting success occurred. Leicester City Football Club, the season began to be degraded as a favorite, won the Premier League. With odds of 5000-1. As ridiculous as the imagination of them was even to avoid relegation, let alone to place at the top of the table, disturbed only a few fans a bet.

And what magic, we can ask written this victory in reality?

Team spirit is proposed one of the answers from the experts. Much has been made of the togetherness of Leicester wardrobe, which is closing with the help of wizardly manager Claudio Ranieri that 11 that the pitch to a total result more than the sum of its parts.

But what is the mysterious team spirit? Do they still exist? After Scotland footballer Steve Archibald, it's "seen an illusion in the wake of victory volatile" - a quote from Mike Atherton put in his essay in the book teammates.

The former England captain doubted such a force as team spirit actually exists, at least in cricket. However, exactly what their existence Atherton and Archibald asked why I play sports. If I did not want to go into the locker room, I would not want to go to the square. But has a winning cricket team to be a happy cricket team? Might not.

In my other sporting love, rugby, team spirit is crucial. This is a brutal 15-a-side competition, where you on your fellow players you trust not pass the ball, but also to protect you from physical damage. A brotherhood is a necessity when your body is on the line. The energy playing with someone you, I dare say, the love and concern for the minds, senses and triggers the adrenaline. There is a bond of the language and culture that makes winning rugby team.

Ah, but cricket. The individual team sports requires only one glittering innings or a hurricane bowling spell to win a game. From a franchise IPL fly in a clique of talented mercenaries to a Saturday league team for promotion vying, the game-winner, the shaman team spirit.

The energy playing with someone you, I dare say, the love and concern for the minds, senses and triggers the adrenaline. There is a bond of the language and culture that makes winning rugby team
If you for cash and the opener of the century confirmed your prize money to play, then you are to share with him a bottle of champagne, regardless of whether you hate his guts. may no longer be the win-bonuses as a pitcher of beer for a Saturday club side, but the focus on cutlery means that the men take the field with not to be on your best friends.

I do not have the exact statistics, but I'm sure England won more than a few matches, as Kevin Pietersen and Matt "The Big Cheese" Prior played together. And what if Harbhajan Singh Sreesanth struck? Have their tiff affect the performance of the Indian team?

Anyway, when Saturdays League in Sunday revolves friendly and relaxed, the pace of the game, increases the value of the company. If the way the game is more important than the result of who the player his golden duck laughing away is as important as this swashbuckling Centurion - maybe more so further because highlighted in friendly cricket own failures only when a talented player steals the show. The locker room fool is the first name on the team sheet, not the guy who swears for dropping catches at Fielder.

if you are a professional, want to win, that's fine, but it may be on a Sunday rather unseemly. Not that the friendly team needs unmanaged and massaging egos. At each level, cricket is a sport on the sensitive psychology is balanced. With other players who can comfort, advice or just chat, is certainly a part of the magic mixture of these essential team spirit. And when quarrels players can not have their own sense of community of the squad, in contrast to the device, such as combine World T20 champions West Indies.

Constructing a team of "nice guys" you will not win that many trophies. But neither is a side of selfish athletes who first put their own performance. There are coaches and captains who cry, and inspire the gesticulating football manager on the side, shouting at their expense flail and instructions. Then there is the Mike Brearleys, the leaders who strive to understand the motives of their players. Or the likes of paternal Clive Lloyd who looks at his team family.

Eleven players bring endless needs and desires in the locker room. The genius of Ranieri at Leicester City has to join a group of football players from different cultures, countries and religions to form a whole. Journalists and players talk about his respect, warmth and humor. He seems to have both Lloyd paternal presence and Brearley psychological insight. But it has to its phenomenal success than just tactics and impeccable manners, and my fellow Leicesterians be hoping that Ranieri contact LCCC cricket supremo Wasim Khan and this secret share to a winning team spirit more.