The Legend called ‘Sachin’

Hi,

I am NIRAV BHAGAT and I am a big-big fan of Sachin. I follow his cricket since last 12-15 years. I use to collect Sachin’s cuttings and books since last 6-7 years and till now I collected more then 3,700 cuttings of this little master.

And I am extremely thankful to team AM, who put great efforts in issuing 28 pager special issue on this legend. First of all, I sincerely and heartily congratulate to Tandilya for completing 20 years in an international cricket. And what a glorious years are those!

During all these years Sachin Tendulkar has the cricketing world at his feet. Perhaps he may never be able to cross Don Bradman’s record of Test cricket’s average of 99.94, but he is the most complete batsman after Sir V Richards. In modern day cricket, he is true icon of world cricket as well as world sports.

As he hold almost each and every batting records in his own name. In other words, we can say that he is ruling world cricket not for 2, 5 or 10 years but for the last 20 years.


During his career at any point of time Sachin doesn’t had liberty like the all time legends have viz Don Bradman, who only played Test cricket during his era and that too mainly against same opponents, Gery Sobers and Viv Richards played for the side that was almost unbeatable for more than two decades.

Steave Waugh and Ricky Pointing always have the advantage of playing for the side that had the greats like McGrath, Warne and Gilchrist. The real question here is, not who is greatest or who is not, but the point is that Sachin is definitely the great among the greatest – who have played all formats of game with over 70 plus records to his credit in the world cricket.

When Tendulkar is on song, there can not be any other majestic sight to realise than to watch him play his master full stoke play all round the any given green park. The spectators at the stadium are on their feet cheering for his hero while all over the world, TV audiences are glued to the screen.

Stadium and boundaries look like as tiny as it can be, bowlers start feeling cold feet finding his is going over the ropes again and again and fielders are made to sweat even in chilly winter conditions.


But whenever he fails to deliver or get out early, critics start dumping him like anything and in those times I really feel a great sense of happiness as it means even the critics want to see him succeed in every encounter. And if once can gaze into his (Sachin) eyes then one can clearly notice a storm waiting to burst out and the opponent are pressed to wear the toll in the next encounter.

And as far as critics are concern, I really feel proud whenever they criticise Sachin as I can feel his pain, the pain which transforms him into the strong solid man. I feel he is the true legend of the world cricket and perfect role model as a sports person in world.

Wish him a very good luck and many bright innings in future which can help India to win many more matches.


Nirav Bhagat