Derek McGrath on the hurling quarter-finals: Waterford to flow and Tipp to grit it out

With the greatest respect to Cian Lynch last Sunday, the two best players on the field were Stephen Bennett and Tadgh de Búrca

IN FULL FLOW: Tadhg De Búrca of Waterford is tackled by Peter Casey of Limerick during the Munster final. Picture: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi and Angela Duckworth are not really what one might call ‘hurling people’ but the famed psychologists know a great deal about what the protagonists involved tomorrow will bring to both All-Ireland quarter-finals.

Think of an “artist, single-mindedly absorbed in the process, experiencing a euphoric sense of elevation,” a state Csikzentmihalyi labelled ‘flow’, and you begin to think of the likes of Joe Canning, Tadhg de Búrca and Tony Kelly.