Friday, February 19, 2010
The Avalanche has begun, yet again!
Teams have taken pride in surrendering to this man. Even audience overseas who want their team to win, want to see this man score a hell a lot of runs. That is the respect he commands. He brings the whole world to a standstill when he bats. There was this instance of a train being halted for a while cos the master was in his 90s! People don’t even move an inch when he approaches a ton. The best time for an advertising company to market their product is probably when the Master is batting. No one would even dare to change the TV channel. This man has had immense success all over the globe, and especially in places where most of the other players have struggled. SCG, Sydney Cricket Ground, is also known as Sachin’s Cricket Ground not only cos of his success there, but also for the love of the people there for him. There was also an Aussie supporter with a banner which read, “Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. It ll go unnoticed. Even God is watching him bat!”
Ardent fanatics of this man note the stylishness that is associated with this man and associated only with this man. Every cricket follower would admire his cover drives, his straight drives, his upper cuts, and his ever-admirable 180deg sweep shot. But I notice things beyond that. The simple manner in which he celebrates his centuries, his talks to the bowler when the team needs wickets, the way he signals to the opposition not to throw the ball at the stumps when he has defended a ball, he has his say on every individual in the game; be it his teammates or the opposition or the commentators or even the audience. Anyone dare not say anything wrong about this legend.
In spite of all this, he has been an Untouchable to fame! I remember this instance when someone asked him whether he was satisfied with all his effort, the master replied with a simple ‘NO’. The reason he gave was scintillating. He said, “I am happy with my performances. But I am never satisfied.” Probably that hunger and the raw desire to succeed, and succeed more, has taken him to this stature where people look at him as God. In India, people would take it if Jesus failed, but they won’t if Sachin failed. And to meet the expectation of millions and carry their hopes single handedly for more than 20 years is just not a joke.
When people talked about his retirement from the game, and when people felt that the man was aging, he was back with a bang. Chasing a mammoth total, his 175 against Aus will stand out as one of the finest innings ever in the history of the game. When people thought Ponting had a chance to score the most number of test centuries, the master had other ideas. And what followed that was a flurry of centuries in the test arena. That little punch in the air, that upward look at the skies, the helmet coming off, and then the bat pointing toward the dressing room and then at the crowd has started becoming a phenomenon, yet again!
P.S: The song in this clipping may not be for the broken hearted. But, the video though, for sure, is for everyone!
However, Cricket will have its Black day when the master leaves the field and calls it quits, but he will never leave our hearts. He will not only be remembered for his uncountable tally of runs and his mammoth number of centuries, or for his contribution to the game, but for the man he was and all the delight that he brought to us by merely watching him on the field. On that black day, however, Cricket will become Cricket again, for till then, Cricket was Sachin!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Smoothness of the Storm
Monday, February 8, 2010
Believe it or not!
.......Thursday, February 4, 2010
Man's Godly invention
