Sachin was at his best when he crossed the 17K runs mark and on his pursuit to 175 his best innings ever when chasing a target. I am not a big fan of this chap as atleast 1 million times he annoyed every one around with his nervous 90s and selfish approach to the game to accumulate runs. However, record is a record and no one had achieved this feat in Cricket and I can not see any one even closer for atleast next few years (provided Sachin retires today) He is deftly India’s proud and neighbours (u kno whom I am referring to) envy….
Rolling back… . it was 1998 April 4 I guess (Sachins bday) Sahara cup and India Vs. Ausralia… I can still rember one of the best memories I got on watching cricket. There is a reason for remembering this.... it was my TamilNadu Professional Course Entrance Examination the next day morning.. I jus finished 12th Std. that time (ippa varaikum nee urupdiya vera enatha kilichanu soldra unga mind voice kekuthu)…. So frusturated with board exams and entrance exams preperations … was waiting for the slog n study days to get over soon… and I cant curb my feelings to watch the match …. My parents gave up after few attempts to keep the house quiet and force me to study for the next days big game….
I thoroughly enjoyed the night throwing away books for one last time…. On the couch whole night watching Sachin belting Kasprowicz and Gillespie so badly that they can never forget for next few months… Those were the days (typical philosophical start punch rite ??) where the whole team is driven by Sachins knock and relatively he messes up lot in chasing the targets specially when its above 250 mark… and he got what possibly could be indias worst batting stretch for a long time aroudn him… to me players like jadeja, nayan mongia, srinath, Prasad were a complete waste of space and money being so useless with batting efficiency….
Later, showed good progress under the dynamic Ganguly… now in safe hands of Dhoni.. arguably the best captain for any cricket team… best captain because he shows the results having a team and balancing the politics part well too with the needed attitude towards the game…. Azharuddins era was jus a run on the mill show producing jus the meeting-the-expectation performance and later when Tendulkar took over, it was unfortunate for him that he got possibly the worst Indian XI line up with another-bunch-of-waste-of-spaces like debashis mohant, abhay kuruvilla, thiru kumaran, harvinder singh, reetinder singh sodhi etc…
Yesterday (Nov. 5) was a literal memory 10 years back with all those flury… infact this was a better one… his stamina was totally impressive for a grand dad of sport… Wish him to accumulate more and more … hopefully to retire from cricket when he is at his peak and hopefully, before he dies ;)
4 comments:
machi similar feelings for sachin..
I am not a huge fan of cricket.. but yet I watch some interesting matches.. And I must say he surely deserves "master blaster" title.. :)
hey dude, that was an amazing innnings along with the record, that bloody ******* spoiled the match, ravindru jadeja, i dont y he is in the team still,,,,
I think we lost the match because of Sachin....I use to like him but most of the time he dispointed me. You go till end and you end up with your record and not win for the team. Anyway he is a great batsman but normally india will loose whenever he come up with good score....even in this match he was literally very careful to get his 100.....
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