A Living Legend - really he is

Now what? I asked myself and did not have any answers. After some time I had this big discussion with one of my friend which is kind of a cliché for most of us, Is Sachin winning matches for India ? His point was Sachin never helped India win matches except for very few occasions. He is an ardent fan of Brian lara. I don't oppose him being a fan of Lara, I too like him. But nobody seems to be better than Sachin for me. This Little master is a gift to India I would say. He is cricket for most of the fans in India, the one who still shows his brilliancy consistency in the game, the one for whom the best bowlers in the world are terrified to bowl, for whom they invent new techniques to get him away from the ground. He is the champion of champions.

"Tendulkar picks the ball up so early and is an amazing stroke-maker. Consistency is the factor that makes Tendulkar special. He is often spoken about in the same breath as Brian Lara, but as far as I am concerned, the comparison does not even begin. Lara is not half as consistent as Tendulkar and lacks the discipline of the latter." - Allan Donald on one of his interviews.

And remember last time when hit a century knock against pakistan you would have seen Akhtar admiring the little master. We all know how fierce and egoistic Akhtar. If a person with that nature and also being a pakistan player can laud sachin why we are still behind him telling that he is not winning matches. I remember 5 r 6 years back India reached decent scores and many times avoided getting humiliated only because of him. If you want him to stand till the end of the game why do u need 10 more players you could just have one batsmen on the non strikers end while India is going for bat. See he is opening the innings and people want him to play the whole match and win the game. Take his last innings, if he had not scored the 141 runs there will never be a question of winning the game. See all I say is there are good batsmen. I'm not saying that sachin is the only one. But he is surely best of all.

"I have never made a secret of the fact that I rate Tendulkar the best batsman in the business. As far as I am concerned he is technically the most sound player I have ever bowled to. Add to that the manner in which he plays, always trying to dominate the bowler. Among his contemporaries, Steve Waugh, Brian Lara and Inzamam-ul Haq are often compared to the little maestro. Each has his trademark, but Tendulkar combines all of their qualities to make him the best of the lot." - McGrath

After seeing all these too some people never stop. So I lose many of these illogical arguments with them. I would say all this arguments arise because they expect Tendulkar to do magic and when he fails to do them they get frustrated and go against him knowing that what they do is complete non sense. The problem is, we in this country are too used to Tendulkar. It is almost as if we have been in the presence of exceptional genius for too long that we have come to take it for granted. And when you take anything for granted, you fail to realize its true significance, its real value.

Over expectation makes him look bad sometimes. He is the only player in the world of cricket who used to carry and still carries the expectations of a whole nation, the young, the old, even our grandmothers in our house wants him to keep going. That’s because he is the only hope. When he comes on the field more than 10million eyes are wathing him and people expect him to wiiiiiiiiiiiinn matchessssssss....... F#$@@$@#$#@$#$@#$...kers(sorry about this, but can't help it)....he will not win matches for you.


Finally I would say that its really unfortunate for him that we people are rating his genius. Those of us who rate don’t realize that we have played only street cricket and very occasionally played in a play ground. I'm sure almost all of us would have never played a full 50 over match in our whole life. So its my humble request to all the people who keep starting this illogical and foolish argument, Please realize his genius. When people all over the world are eager to watch him play why are we not satisfied with him. So let us all be proud that Sachin is living in the same era as we are and we can talk greatly about ourselves with our next generations that we have watched him playing. The horrifying fact is that the time is not too far when he might stop playing, even if we want to see him play so please celebrate his genius. He really is a legend......