Never knew about Gangnam Style until Gayle's demo

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Before penning my thoughts I was watching the Gang­nam video on the internet and trying to understand what the fuss was all about. Honestly I didn’t know about it till the time the spark­ling Chris Gayle gave a demo of Gan­gnam mo­ves du­r­ing the T20 Wo­r­ld Cup. I tho­ught perhaps that’s how the Jamaicans are grooving th­e­­­se days. The enlig­htenment came from a friend.
Internet is flooded with Gangnam. And I can understand why. It is not a great video but the music is catchy in patches. Dance steps – well, they are fun to watch but a challenge to master. In any case, no one has been able to push me on to a dance floor. To me, Gangnam is fun and underlines Park Jae-sang or PSY’s out of the box thinking. Sometimes you never know what you may get by pushing the envelope.
That is what breathes life into our game too or for that matter in every walk of the life. It is about pushing the envelope, thinking out of the box and being creative. On the face of it my game may not advertise unorthodoxy but I always maintain that creativity is in the mind and delivered by skill.
Here is an example. Dur­ing this year’s IPL, I was con­sistently getting runs against a particular bowler. Earlier I used to have a lot of verbal exchanges with him. Dur­ing the overs or in between, I’d never take a backward step. But this IPL, I just kept quiet and he kept giving me his piece of mind. I deliberately did what up­set him. He needed this verbal duel to get going. I didn’t want to give him that and it worked. While this is not as creative as Gangnam, it was my fresh approach to co­u­nter this men­acing opponent.
At the mom­ent though, KKR as a group doesn’t need to be creative or doesn’t need to get the Gangn­am moves. This is simply bec­ause we hav­en’t done the basics right. As we prepare for our last game, I can’t stress enough on the need to have a strong foundation of planning, technique and a sound mindset to deliver consistently. I think we tried but were not good enough in that. It will be a consolation if we can sign off with a win, alt­hough the weather once again looks menacing here in Cape Town. A resounding win followed by a KKR version of Gangnam will do no harm. We have a few in our ranks who should be good at that and can accompany Gayle on the dance floor.
I was just told that LA Lak­ers’ superstar Dwight How­ard feels that Gang­nam style of dancing has helped him strengthen his core and lower back!! I also read somewhere that a country’s federal minister has urged his countrymen to imbibe PSY’s creativity!! Well…
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