Today’s cricketers are usually a hyperactive lot. They are busy either practising or playing matches — Tests, one-day-internationals, T20 internationals or some T20 league — through the year. One wonders therefore how they are coping with the havoc that the coronavirus outbreak is causing and their being consigned to enforced lockdowns in their homes. Of course, one can only sympathise with cricket buffs who have got so used to watching live action throughout the year and now have to make do with blasts-from-the-past on YouTube and Prime Video. Benjamin Stiller, the American comedian and TV host, says, “I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelising that into something productive, unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or the gardener.” That could be the case with cricket players too; where and how do they expend their abundant nervous energy? Virat Kohli tells us that Anushka [Sharma; his actress wife] and he were lucky to have escaped to their farmhous...
