Speed of Light vs Speed of Cricket ball

Mostly everyone is aware that speed of light is constant i.e. 300000km/sec, but many of us get surprised when we learn that Einstein further theorized that this speed is constant with respect to observer also. This implies that effect of the observer’s own speed on the relative speed of light coming toward him/her is Nil even when he/she is moving at a very high speed (say sitting in rocket going to space) towards the source of light. Even if we assume the rocket speed to be so high that it becomes quite comparable to speed of light (say 100000km/sec), the observer in the rocket will observe the speed of light coming towards him to be 300000km/sec instead of 400000km/sec as we would reasonably expect.
We shall now try to co-relate this phenomenon with speed of a cricket ball. Assuming that a good shot is hit by a batsman and a fielder sees the ball coming towards him. He makes a quick judgement that the ball may land a few steps in front of him, so he dashes forward to catch the ball and succeeds. He gets a good applause from his team-mates and the crowd.
Now, consider the ball to behave as light. if the fielder is a physicist, he will reason that his running towards the ball will have no effect on the relative speed of the ball coming towards him similar to the speed of light. So, he will not run forward and its result is obvious. Thank God, Cricketers don’t think like physicists!