SACHIN TENDULKAR –“COMETH THE TIME, COMETH THE MAN”

"I was very very struck with his technique and I asked my wife to come and have a look at him because, I said, I never saw myself play but I feel that this fellow is playing much the same I used to play by looking at him”. Can you guess whose words are these??

These are the laudatory remark of the world’s greatest cricket SIR DONALD BRADMAN praising the little master Sachin Tendulkar.

Sachin - the name itself will strike terror for the oppositions. No matter if it’s the world champions or the minnows. He is India’s pride and the world’s envy. Representing team India from 1989, this eminent cricketer has scored more than 25,000 international runs and 78 International centuries. There is nothing this maestro cannot do - he is a belligerent opening batsman for one dayers, a credit worthy middle order batsman in test matches and a bowler who can bowl right arm medium pace deliveries, legbreaks, offbreaks and even googlies.

He is the youngest cricketer to wear a test cap for his country - Sachin Tendulkar was all of 16 years old when he took on the mighty Pakistanis in the first test at Karachi. He didn’t score much but straight away the signs were all there. He was not a flash in the pan but he had arrived and he was there to stay. He proved that when he flapped down a spunky half century on a moving greenish track in the 2nd innings of the 4th test against Pakistan. He had bailed the Indians out of trouble and availed them to save the test match. Sachin further enhanced his development into a master batsman during the 1991-92 tour of the Aussies which included an unbeaten 148 in Sydney and a world famous ton on the pacy and bouncy track at Perth.

Since then it is all Sachin’s show till now. He has performed deeds that border on the unimaginable in both forms of the game scoring 37 test and 41 ODI tons. He is undoubtedly the geek of world cricket for almost 2 decades. Every time he walks into bat, he carries the hopes of a billion people who look to him as the lonesome provider of hope in a nation surrounded by gloom, despair and politics and a nation so implausibly starved of heroes. Sachin is the ducky of the masses not just in India but the world over.

It is very hard to find a player with talent, power and modesty for eons and eons to come. Every one is saying cricket is a religion. If the statement is true then sachin is without question ‘the god of cricket’. “COMETH THE TIME, COMETH THE MAN!!!”. It is obvious that Sachin Tendulkar stands for Indian cricket and in fact for world cricket.

-Deebak Mohan