Gaze Heuristic
Gerd Gigerenzer says, fielders - be it in cricket or in baseball, consciously or unconsciously, follow a simple heuristic.
- Just fix your gaze on the ball
- Just make sure you maintain the angle as you run in the direction of the ball
- Catch the ball.
“We know from animal research that a predator catches prey by keeping its optical angle constant. Sailors use it to avoid a collision. They don’t estimate their own trajectory and they don’t estimate that of others. They fix their gaze, if the angle remains constant they just get away,” Gigerenzer said.
Steve Waugh classic Cricket catch
