SA Cricket Team - Samurai Story

An extract from 'South Africa Cricket Team needs a new narrative' by Dr.Ken Jennings

Here is the story of the two samurai warriors who were pitted against each by their respective emperors to fight to the death to see which empire would be victorious and so able to annex the other. There was a lot at stake. Before the fight each warrior went into solitary meditation for about a week. To meditate on what? The story goes that they meditated on their death. They made peace with dying. They did this since the worry of death during the fight would have distracted their focus, which would result in their death. They both knew that only one would remain, yet there was a serenity in both as they faced each other.