Ek Nayi League

Sports is much more than just physical involvement in the game. It takes courage, grit, confidence and a lot more to give all what you have and get the desired results. Much more than what our physical strengths promises to give us, our emotional fitness matters too. Any game demands the same amount of mental resources as one’s physical endurance.

We’ve learned this from our childhood as well as from any one acquainted with sports that it is played from our hearts. We often talk about the sporting spirit, which means to have a big heart and think beyond winning and losing. To think about the spirit of the sport.

The recent trending topic on twitter and the videos that surfaced about the #EkNayiLeague has challenged anything that we have heard about playing with our hearts. Our country’s cricket captain Kapil Dev who won us the first World cup says something in his videos that contradicts all what we have previously heard about sports and amuses in a different way. It keeps us guessing in a strange way about what in the world it can be where you lose if you play with your hearts!

Whether it be the video where he asks our captain cool M.S. Dhoni to participate in what he calls #EkNayiLeague but warns in advance that he will be out if he plays with his heart.

Or when he defends Sania Mirza against the world for being a girl from India who ranks along with the world. And asks her to be a part of his new game where she would lose if she played with her heart.

When he is proud of Yuvraj singh for earning a handsome figure for his IPL contract this year and also the miraculous fight he won against cancer. To him too, he says that he not win in this new game if he played with his heart.

So, what game is it? How on earth can one lose something if he played with his heart?

Here is what I think the game could be.

#EkNayiLeague would involve sports stars but not for playing the game they actually play. But for a game which would test one’s mental fitness. Like a quiz show.

Where in, there would be games which would have heavy intellectual involvement and test their intellect. They would have to make decisions that would challenge the brains and make them think in a logical way rather than an emotional way.

Maybe it could be something else, maybe it could be the same as my wild guess but it surely seems to entertain us with loads of fun and I am extremely excited to know the game where you would lose if you played with your hearts. It would be nice to see a completely different concept arising out of all the clichéd ones.

Tell what you think about #EkNayiLeague on twitter with the same hashtag or submit your answers to Ek Nayi League and you could win Rs. 1 lakh.

Till then, follow Kapil Dev on twitter to know what #EkNayiLeague exactly is.