"I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner," bragged disreputable lawyer Saul Goodman in one of his early appearances on Breaking Bad, "and it worked because I believed it!" It was a point well made about the ubiquitous effect of self-belief.
WOMEN'S WORLD T20, 2018
Australia have a completely different team and formula - Schutt
Schutt is in her sixth year as an Australian player. © Getty
In Australia, there is a familiar truism from sixth grade park cricket to a packed professional stadium. It runs that hostile cricket equals successful cricket. To what extent that two and two makes four matters little due to how this message passed down, socialised, and crucially, believed. The consensus runs strongly.
What happens, then, when a lore like this is challenged? Well, the Australian women's team are striving to find out. They've been busy writing a new equation.
Speaking to Cricbuzz in the days before the start of the World T20 campaign, attack-leader Megan Schutt explained how a shift in disposition has infected a game plan that liberates the players to compete with a smile by default rather than a scowl.
A turning point was when they were punted from last year's ODI World Cup at the
