Synonym of Cricket - "Sachin Tendulkar"

“Beneath the helmet, under the unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don’t know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even though who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives”

Most of us don’t have the ability to think in broader sense. When we speak about rose, we get a red rose in our mind. We won’t let our mind to think about yellow rose, white or other. There are many examples like this if you keep on thinking. Even most of the Indians are suffering from this dilemma, it’s simple. We have the synonym for Indian cricket as SACHIN TENDULKAR. It’s not the narrow minded thought we have. It’s the impact of his personality and sportsmanship.

“I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him” – Hansie Cronje

For any sportsman it’s difficult to perform well under the crowd. They will be distracting, cheering their team. In these cases one finds hard to concentrate and may not perform well. You can make a blind person to feel the depth of the well or steep of the hill by making him jump to the next step in staircase. And tell him, this took a fraction of second, but you may take a few mins to reach the floor when you jump from a level to make him know about the heights.

When it comes to pressure on Sachin, no one can describe how much it was? How did he handle it?

When he was hit by the bouncer of Waqar Younus in his debue match at Pakistan. He was only 16 yrs of age, he was bleeding. But the next ball was shown way to the boundary. He never backed down.  He was gifted. He was matured. He had this threshold level very high compared to others. He never wined on umpires for the bad decisions even he had heaps of pressure. He is the definition of a sportsman and gentleman.

Sachin has the largest fan following in the world. When he was suspended for a test match because of referee’s decision on what it seemed to be ball tampering. The revolt against the decision in India made ICC not to allow the referee inside the ground and suspension was removed on Sachin, since he was innocent.

Greatest leg spinner of all time Shane Warne was famous for his misbehavior in bar and was known as ladies man. Ricky Ponting had temperament problems. Most of the sportsmen lose their temper at some stages, and there is one exception. It is Sachin Tendulkar. If Navjoth Singh Siddu was at the receiving end of the bad decisions from Steve Buckner like Sachin did, I’m afraid I should have called the “Mr. slow death” as Late. International umpire. Sachin was born to create history, destined to be a legend. He is the greatest batsmen ever produced in the country. If you want to know how good you are in batting. Sachin will be the mark and you have to look how close you can get to him

Just imagine a 6 feet hunk bowls at a small guy with a furious pace, and the ball will be sent back like a bullet. The humiliation faced by the bowler is ridiculous.

His strokes were perfect cricketing shots. If you ask me, they could be used as definition for the various cricketing terms. The sheer class and standard of the cricket is measured by how well one can play like Sachin. There is no one in the world who can play the straight drive with a high bat lift like him, “for that shot ,children please refer page no 36” if I come across these words in Indian schools in future I wouldn’t be surprised.

When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to play against the deadliest bowling attacks in cricketing history, Shahrukh khan was a small actor on television, A.R.Rahman was still known as Dileep kumar, Pete Sampras had no grand slam title in his career, Michel Schumacher was just a funky name, David Beckham was a football hero of his high school team. We have had champions, we have seen legends. But we never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we will never have.