Friday, November 6, 2009

The Master

What does it take to be a master?
Experience ? hard work? technique? luck??????????

what would you say ? I can say only one thing the one ingredient that is needed is the passion.
I have seen a small man walking out with his MRF bat 13 years earlier to this I just knew his name as every child in this country knows but I never thought that my eyes were witnessing the greatest man that has ever played the game for the first time

Yes you are right ,the man is Sachin .The first match I saw that day was against zimbabwe sachin scored a half-century .Lol, those Days zimbabwe was not a weak side they had the likes of champbells ,the flowers and many others. I remember the match well .And the shane warne sharjah episode I saw Sachin in my dreams I don`t know how warne felt.But I can say one thing Shane Warne cannot forget the match in his life time.And again one more match I remember is the match against kenya in the world cup 1999. Sachin`s father died just a couple days earlier .He came back with a heavy heart and got a hundred . And then while he was the captain of India ,He got 186* what an innings that was! but I could only see the highlights of the match.Then in this line comes the match against pakistan in 2003 WC. That was the class of the master .I feel to be previleged to have watched the master .I never said that I was a fan of Sachin except for a brief span of a year or so in 1999-2000. But like every indian I too feel the confidance in my deep which never exists when sehwag or yuvraj bats today. The 175 he got against Australia sachin got was the best of the performances by an Indian batsman in recent times .The innings has its own value because it was played under pressure . We expect many more such innings from sachin .Sachin thats why you are really special .You are the master . The modern demi-god of cricket. Hats-off