According to CricViz analysts, Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne is the luckiest batsman in world cricket as no different participant has missed extra catches with the bat, in accordance with his statistics collected over the previous decade and a half.
In Season 2 of the Amazon Prime documentary ‘The Test,’ Labuschagne pulls again the curtain a bit, admitting {that a} tiny sticker of a black eagle on his bat could also be behind all his luck. Even his fellow gamers appear to agree with it.
“One of the biggest things in sport is your mind, and once your mind goes down a path, you can’t stop it, it just goes down that path,” Labuschagne stated. “I don’t think stickers matter — until you start thinking it matters,” he stated.
Labuschagne is a religious Christian and the eagle reminds him of his favourite passage from the Bible, Isaiah 40:31: “To those that hope within the Lord, he’ll renew his energy. They will soar on wings like eagles; they may Will run and never get drained, stroll and never get drained.
Labuschagne stated, “Everyone knows that cricket is a major part of my life, but my value as a person is not in cricket, it is in my belief.”
His teammates corresponding to David Warner and Usman Khawaja have typically referred to the chicken as a crow and agree that it could possibly be the rationale for Labuschagne’s luck within the center.
According to Fox Sports, between July 2019 and December 2022, Labuschagne was dropped 16 instances and caught on 20 events, a conversion price of 55.5 %.
In final summer season’s Adelaide Ashes Test, Labuschagne was dropped thrice after which scored 103. Later within the match, he was caught behind by Jos Buttler and was slowly making his manner off the pitch when the choice was overturned because the bowler had crossed to Ollie Robinson.
Teammate Nathan Lyon stated, “Honestly, I’d get that bird tattooed on my head.”
Recently, Fox Cricket offered that Labuschagne had seven “expected dismissals” throughout his eight-hour double century in opposition to the West Indies in Perth, the place he had a run of luck, famous an article in Cricket.au has gone.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
