Sachin Tendulkar!!!!! The God of Cricket!!

21 years, 18,000 runs, 453 matches and finally a dream has been realized. A dream with which Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar entered the World of Cricket more than two decades back. With the World Cup victory in his bag, Sachin has now achieved everything that a cricketer would ever dream of.



The year was 1992; 6 WC’s back, and a teenager from Mumbai started his journey towards bringing the ultimate cricketing glory back to India. After 19 years of tireless cricket, which has more often than not resulted in despair and agony, the World Cup has now finally been felt by our God… the joy of which can only be understood and felt by him.

He has carried the burden of an entire Nations expecations for 21 long years; since the time the Kohli’s and Raina’s would not even have known what cricket is. The hardwork that has been met and the toll cricket has taken on his body wouldn’t ever be imaginable for mortals likes us. For one thing we know, Sachin has delivered whenever we have wanted him to.

One year past two decades is a real long period and many feel Tendulkar’s time to retire wouldn’t be far and long. Every Indian would have woken up to this nightmare at least once in the last 21 years. And now when the moment is actually nearing, the anxiety of hundreds of millions cricket lovers would have no bounds.
Every ODI series would be desperately awaited from now on; every cricket news would be tracked with desperation… not to see how the team performs but to ensure that Sachin will carry his bat through another series. Judging by the kind of cricket he has been playing, the question of retirement may perhaps be out of reckoning. From being a perfect technician of the game to being an insignia of cricket worldwide, he has lived the dream of an entire Nation. While the fears of his retire surround us, there is one more question that keeps buzzing us; has he met the expectations of those hundreds of millions cricket lovers?? Have the fans watched enough??......... After a big silence, the answer would be a bigger “NO”. We have shed a bucket load of tears when Sachin got out on 18, can we be content without watching a WC finals century from the Master Blaster.

With all due respect, we, the fans, would not want Sachin to even think of retirement, before all our expectations are met. The target of 75 centuries and 20,000 runs in Test Cricket hasn’t been met yet. Nothing less than a century in the finals of world cup would fulfill our expectations; winning the IPL and Champions trophy isn’t on priority, but we would love if he does it; we hate it when someone calls him a bad captain; A triple century in test cricket, another double ton in ODI and a couple or more centuries in the T20 format are some more things doesn’t seem far for achieving. And last but not the least; we would love to watch him open the innings for India with his son.

Expectations are zillions, they are unique and when one expectation is met the other arises. Sometimes (many a times in case of Sachin) they are just not practical. The youth of India has grown up watching SRT play. There are many, like me, who heard the word Sachin Tendulkar before cricket. Would Sachin’s retirement mean any less than a calamity for the ardent fans in us?

Players like Yuvi, Gauti, MS Dhoni, Viru and Zaheer Khan have risen to the occasion as and when anything was demanded off them. They have equally been part of the team that has conquered the cricketing world. But can they match the ecstasy of a single Sachin Tendulkar innings?


As Claude Levi-Straus quotes in his innate manner, “The world began without man, and it will end without him”. Things will come out full circle eventually; the dawn of this golden episode will end some day. Cricket started without Sachin and will definitely end without him, something that we Indians would never like to believe. Long Live Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar!!