When I was working with the Sri Lankan cricket team many years ago, a Buddhist priest said to me: "There is nothing in this life that we can have for very long. People and things come into our lives, then leave us, and we are left sad and aching because of our attachments."

Tony Cozier during the 2007 World Cup Super Eights match between WI and England at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados. Pic/Getty Images