All of a sudden on Sunday morning people came to know that there much-loved Sportsman has decided to retire from ODI. Messages started pouring in through emails fb status, tweets etc about his legacy. For some he was (only to depict his retirement) GOD, for others a wonderful batsman and a perfect gentleman.
People of my age will remember that Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Very Very Special Laxman and Saurav dada were more than cricketer to our generation. They inspired us. They were not like our present day cricketers who are more in lime light because of their mischievous acts. I remember watching Harsha Bhogle talking about Sachin. If you haven’t watched it than watch it today I wont write further about his speech.
Sachin is Sachin not because he is GOD but because he worked very hard to be there. We all know what happened to Vinod Kambli’s career. Kambli was talented but like Saurav he could not over come his shortcomings. So it is not the talent that counts, it your attitude, its your way of looking at the problem. This is the reason that no problem ever stopped Sachin from coming back, not even his tennis elbow surgery.
Gods are beyond scrutiny. This is what our fore fathers did with the people of their time and today we read about them in mythology. We don’t question there mistakes and shortcomings. Lets not make Sachin God, let him be human, a very hard working and a focused person whose first love was cricket. The moment you make him God, people may start praying him and somewhere his attitude towards game and all the other stuffs will be lost. He is successful only because of his attitude towards his profession.
I am sure generations to come will be envy us for having seen him playing.
People of my age will remember that Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Very Very Special Laxman and Saurav dada were more than cricketer to our generation. They inspired us. They were not like our present day cricketers who are more in lime light because of their mischievous acts. I remember watching Harsha Bhogle talking about Sachin. If you haven’t watched it than watch it today I wont write further about his speech.
Sachin is Sachin not because he is GOD but because he worked very hard to be there. We all know what happened to Vinod Kambli’s career. Kambli was talented but like Saurav he could not over come his shortcomings. So it is not the talent that counts, it your attitude, its your way of looking at the problem. This is the reason that no problem ever stopped Sachin from coming back, not even his tennis elbow surgery.
Gods are beyond scrutiny. This is what our fore fathers did with the people of their time and today we read about them in mythology. We don’t question there mistakes and shortcomings. Lets not make Sachin God, let him be human, a very hard working and a focused person whose first love was cricket. The moment you make him God, people may start praying him and somewhere his attitude towards game and all the other stuffs will be lost. He is successful only because of his attitude towards his profession.
I am sure generations to come will be envy us for having seen him playing.
Cricket is an intense physically stressful game and howsoever great one cannot continue playing for ever. It is not Politics where seniority keeps gets adding to one's delivery. I am also a fan of Sachin but am feeling let down by the way he announced the most talked about thing i.e., retirement. had I been in place I would have made the announcement in a public gathering of select gathering and what can be better than a stadium where he first got the fan following. Shooting a plain letter to BCCI is like a resignation from job that one held for long and not something that can be dissociation from a passion that one lived (himself) and others used to look at him with. I am forced to believe that he was not selected for Pak team one dayers and he left the letter to BCCI and went on holidays to avoid media and fans.
ReplyDeleteA good read. Will miss the legend like everyone. :(
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