Talking about the legends is not easy and I say this because words will always be less to describe them and our love for them and their stories will be infinite.
In 1989 when a 16 year old boy walked in the middle of the park against Pakistan nobody had wondered that he will create wonders.
Yes I am talking about the super man of the Indian cricket...The Great Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
Named after his family's favorite music director, Sachin Dev Burman, Tendulkar wasn't a particularly gifted student, but he'd always show himself to be a standout athlete.At the age of 14 he scored 329 out of a world record stand of 664 in a school match. As his accomplishments grew, he became a sort of cult figure among Bombay schoolboys.
After high school Tendulkar enrolled at Kirti College, where his father also taught. The fact that he decided to go to the school where his father worked was of no surprise. Tendulkar's family is very close and years after he'd achieved stardom and cricket fame, he continued to live next door to his parents.
Sachin Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Bombay, India. Given his first cricket bat at the age 11, Tendulkar was just 16 when he became India's youngest Test cricketer. In 2005 he became the first cricketer to score 35 centuries in Test play. In 2007 Tendulkar reached another major milestone, becoming the first player to record 15,000 runs in one-day international play. In 2010 he scored
200* against South Africa
Tendulkar was just 23 when he was named captain of his country's team for the 1996 World Cup. While the tournament proved to be a disappointment for his country, Tendulkar did nothing to diminish his own standing as one of the world's dominant players. He finished out the World Cup as the event's top scorer.
But yes everything has to end
In 1989 when a 16 year old boy walked in the middle of the park against Pakistan nobody had wondered that he will create wonders.
Yes I am talking about the super man of the Indian cricket...The Great Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
Named after his family's favorite music director, Sachin Dev Burman, Tendulkar wasn't a particularly gifted student, but he'd always show himself to be a standout athlete.At the age of 14 he scored 329 out of a world record stand of 664 in a school match. As his accomplishments grew, he became a sort of cult figure among Bombay schoolboys.
After high school Tendulkar enrolled at Kirti College, where his father also taught. The fact that he decided to go to the school where his father worked was of no surprise. Tendulkar's family is very close and years after he'd achieved stardom and cricket fame, he continued to live next door to his parents.
Sachin Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Bombay, India. Given his first cricket bat at the age 11, Tendulkar was just 16 when he became India's youngest Test cricketer. In 2005 he became the first cricketer to score 35 centuries in Test play. In 2007 Tendulkar reached another major milestone, becoming the first player to record 15,000 runs in one-day international play. In 2010 he scored
200* against South Africa
Tendulkar was just 23 when he was named captain of his country's team for the 1996 World Cup. While the tournament proved to be a disappointment for his country, Tendulkar did nothing to diminish his own standing as one of the world's dominant players. He finished out the World Cup as the event's top scorer.
But yes everything has to end
There is no Indian tradition of graceful retirement. The inherent human
vanity of an authority reluctant to cede the public stage is reinforced
by a culture of adulation, ululating crowds, of an
uncritical elevation of heroes to godlike status by devotees who will
not let go. In politics, in cinema, even in corporate business houses,
old Indian men do not fade into the sunset. They hobble on and on. And
when they die, they are “kept alive” by heirs who succeed them: sons,
daughters, wives. Sport, by its very nature, is different: there is no
elegant case for heirs on a cricket team, and the body imposes its own
laws of retirement.
Yet Sachin and his fans have tried their best to defy those natural
laws. After all, idolatry is an Indian art form. Some Indian gods have
three heads, or 10 arms. Others have serpents coiled around their
torsos, or rivers streaming from their heads. And one, Sachin, wields a
sacred cricket bat, heavy, sweet, made of the finest willow.
There is more for a man who built his reputation not just on supreme batsmanship but also on his unwavering modesty, impeccable manners and an evident pleasure in being part of (and never greater than) the team on which he played, there has been an unlovely whiff of selfishness in his reluctance to give way to younger players, in his limpet-like clinging to his place, and in his relentless pursuit of milestones.
But we shouldn’t blame Sachin. In any other land, he would have aged.
There is more for a man who built his reputation not just on supreme batsmanship but also on his unwavering modesty, impeccable manners and an evident pleasure in being part of (and never greater than) the team on which he played, there has been an unlovely whiff of selfishness in his reluctance to give way to younger players, in his limpet-like clinging to his place, and in his relentless pursuit of milestones.
But we shouldn’t blame Sachin. In any other land, he would have aged.
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