Top 5 cricket fan theories

5) Washroom: A place where victory exists

Close games lead to a lot of crazy superstitions

It’s not often that a cricket fanatic likes going to the washroom when a match is on its way. It’s completely justified for the fact that the missed moments may possess something highly intriguing and worth regretting.

But when the match has gone all the way down to the wire and every result is a possibility, fans find the washroom a source of gathering peace and also a honeypot of supernatural powers for getting their teams to topple oppositions. Call it a superstition or a weird fan theory, the notion has worked for many followers if not all.

As a fan, I remember myself hurrying to the washroom after every delivery during the closing stages of the final of the 2007 T20 World Cup between India and Pakistan. It’s a surety that the day saw the technique being applied by many.

Never mind being superstitious, the tactics worked on that day for the Indian fans. It may sound vague, but somewhere down the line the beliefs showed by the fans have become a secret to a team’s success.