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 Here is an interesting analysis from Cricket. Here are 3 instances when 36 runs were scored on different occasions.

1. A famous batsman played one of the slowest ODI knocks, as he carried his bat through the 60 over innings to score 36 runs in 174 balls with 1 four in the first World Cup in England in 1975.

2. A famous allrounder became the first batman to hit 6 sixes (36 runs) in an over in the 2007 T20 World Cup in Durban, South Africa against England.

3. India scored 36 all out in Dec 2020 in the Adelaide test against Australia.

In the 46 years between the famous batsman’s 36 & India’s 36 all out, the hierarchy of the game’s formats has changed. The batsman’s 36 not out was a wake-up call for us to learn the art of scoring faster while 36 all out was a wake-up call for us to learn the art of staying at the wicket longer

What’s there to learn from an investment perspective 1. Like the batsman’s innings sometimes your investment can give you lesser returns for a prolonged period. 2. Like the allrounder, sometimes your investment can deliver highest returns in the least possible time. 3. Like team India, sometimes all your assets can perform sub-optimally. Despite all this, the batsman was one of the finest in his times, The allrounder was a great player & team India ranks at the top. Similarly in investing, Graph 1 depicts the various milestones reached by the Sensex & the time taken to reach milestone. Every 10k milestone did not take the same time. Some took over 10 years while some took less than a year. But Graph 2- depicts how much the market dipped between 2 milestones & the worst dips are in 2009 & 2020. Like they say, Mutual Funds & Cricket are subject to volatile phases.

Source: BSE