What do actor Richard Gere, tennis star Novak Djokovic and singer Paul McCartney have in common? Yes, you guessed it right. They all meditate. Now, it seems English batsman Nick Compton too is following in their footsteps.
Test discard Compton will be able to breathe easily again after his stupendous comeback in the Durban match, thanks to meditation which has breathed new life into the out-of-form batsman.
Compton posted scores of 85 and 49 in his comeback Test as England defeated South Africa by 241 runs in Durban to claim a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.
The promising right-hander was dropped in 2013 following a painstaking seven from 45 balls against India at Headingley.
Before leaving for South Africa he had told All Out Cricket magazine how meditation and learning to control breathing has helped his batting. “The mind is like the bicep, you have got to train it.”
It’s possible that in the Durban Test Compton may have put to good use the yoga or the meditation techniques he had learned to focus the mind during his time out of the side.
Well, going by the way he was middling the ball and the temperament he showed in the Durban Test, it appears the breathing exercises have stood Compton in good stead.
