Birmingham — You will not find Matthew Killingsworth’s name among those involved in the Champions Trophy match between SA and Pakistan at Edgbaston on Wednesday. Why would you? Killingsworth has a PhD in psychology from Harvard University and, according to his online biography, studies "the nature and causes of human happiness". Cricket causes happiness in billions around the world, but that is different. Even so, some will see a connection between Killingsworth repeatedly exhorting his followers to "stay in the moment" and the use of exactly that phrase by JP Duminy and Wayne Parnell in separate conversations with reporters in the past few days. What is it all about, AB de Villiers? "I wouldn’t say it’s part of team tactics," De Villiers said on Tuesday. "It’s just an awareness of not thinking of the past or the future, as simple as that. "If we live in the past, there’s lots of scars that we can think of, lots of bad experiences; some good ones as well. If you try and touch on the...
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