Cricket will have its Black day when the master leaves the field and calls it quits, but never will he leave our hearts. He will not only be remembered for his uncountable tally of runs and his mammoth number of centuries and 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 day, however, Cricket will become Cricket again, for till then, Cricket was Sachin!
"It strikes me that there is a whole generation of Indian cricket fans who are, say, in their mid- or late- 20s, and recall no Indian cricket other than that dominated by Tendulkar. They will, once he goes, realize the strangeness of not having him there. They will deal with the awful vacuum. And they shall speak to the future generations of what it was like to have him around" - HT
