Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Hats off to Sachin

When it's about cricket, the first word comes to mind "Sachin". Few months back I met him in Mussoorie and found he is more than what I thought about him, more than down to earth, more than a cricketer, more than a celeberity and more than what we expect of him. Although Tendulkar has enthralled his millions of fans with many great innings but always looked a child looking for more like a new comer. Even when the young Sachin took his guard in Pakistan at the age of 16, it was like the toughest initiation for any young cricketer playing Pakistan in Pakistan with the likes of world class bowling attack Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Abdul Quadir, this attack was one of the most deadlies attack in world cricket in those days and more than deadliest when in their own den. Really that was the fateful day for this legend. Even one cricketer said that if he is able to pass the test in Pakistan then nobody can stop him from playing for 20 years and the same got true and probably it might get better and better. Sachin is simply the incomparable, the inimitable, the awe-inspiring and totally a team man.