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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar creates history by being the first human on mother earth, to ever score a double hundred in a One Day International Cricket match…
Is it the first time he has re-written history books? Did anyone have any doubt that he had the ability to do it? Will this record never be broken by anyone anytime in future? To me the answer to all these questions is a resounding ‘No’. I am reminded of few lines from my favourite poet, Sahir Ludhianvi who once said:
Kal Aur Aayenge, Sapno ki khilti kaliyan chunne waale,
Mujhse behtar kehne waale, Tumse behtar sunne waale…
And then there are those, who relentlessly try and instigate a debate. Sachin Vs Richards or Sachin Vs Bradman. Perhaps Sahir Saab wrote these lines for Sir Don Bradman and Sir Vivian Richards. I am just extending it for My Little Master.
In a country obsessed with worshiping the legends - often building temples for their idols, I stand as a typical metropolitan and educated individual, who believes it would be inappropriate for any human to ever be equated to perfection that God is believed to be. But then, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar comes the closest, almost worthy of the supreme association. So if he is God or closest to God, then He is there to be worshiped, only worshiped and nothing else. Nothing irritates me more than the debate between Great, Greater and Greatest. In our religious Hindu belief, where we have loved to worship multiple Gods, has there been any debate on which God is better than the other?
I'd rather just thank Mr Sachin Tendulkar for everything. Everything from scoring this double century, to saving that one run in the match at Jaipur which eventually became the difference between a win and a tie, for all the matches he has won single handedly, for making those 175 runs against Australia and almost winning that match for India, for winning the Commonwealth Series in Australia, Coca Cola cup in Sharjah... the list is endless. So Sachin, thank you for lifting the whole country and giving us an opportunity to be proud of you for the player you are and for the Indian you are!!!
There is only one mission left to be accomplished, only one Everest to be climbed and only one dream to be lived – Sachin lifts India to win the ODI World Cup 2011. I will drink to it tonight, will you?
All I'll say is that I admire your adulation for Sachin, and your rock-steady belief in him... he has proved that his followers faith in him is not misplaced.
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