The way we see Sachin…

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Sachin enters the pitch.
Commentator: And this is the 50,000th time Sachin is entering a cricket pitch!

Sachin waits at the non-strikers end looking at Sehwag.
Commentator: And this is the 250th time Sachin is at the non-striker’s end!

Sehwag hits the ball and Sachin runs.
Commentator: And this is the 15,000th time Sachin is running a run for his partner.

Sachin plays a dot ball.
Commentator: And this is the 20,000th dot ball Sachin has played in his life!

Sachin hits a 4.
Commentator: And this is his 2000th ODI 4 and 3000th overall!

Sachin takes a single.
Commentator: And this is his 5000th single, what a record! What a player!

Sachin sips water from a bottle.
Commentator: And my statistician has just informed me that Sachin has just completed 20 years, 20 weeks, 20 days, 20 hours and 20 minutes of his international career! Wow! Gush!

Sehwag hits a 6.
Second Commentator: And what a glorious shot! Whenever…
Our original commentator cutting him short: …Sachin plays alongside him, Sehwag plays his best! What an inspirational player Sachin is!

Sachin…
Commentator…

Moral of the story: Most surveys will show Sachin Tendulkar to be the greatest cricketer of all time. But there are other not so invisible players who do great deeds and a team’s victories are greater than the sum of all records.

© Sunil Rajguru

11 thoughts on “The way we see Sachin…”

  2. truly agreeable post! Other players and team’s victory do get a raw deal at times…thanks to Tendulkar’s feats.

  4. Thanks Randy!
    Disha: That is right. Wish people would concentrate on victories rather than records.

  6. Nice post! Though I hope that the commentators and statisticians are blamed for an overdose of frivolous statistics and that Sachin be spared.

  7. Arvind: True. Sachin quietly goes about his game, staying out of controversy. It’s the media, statisticians and commentators who go overboard. Like recently a bowler got his maiden wicket and they kept harping on Sachin taking the catch. Then when Dinesh Karthik hit 4s and 6s to win India the match, he was taken to the cleaners in the media for denying Sachin a century!

  9. Though I’m not one of the greatest Sachin Tendulkar fans, i don;t quite agree with what you say! Do you remember the times when Sachin’s wicket was the most important wicket? Teams made plans on how to get this guy out as he would take the match single handedly! How many times has a Laxman’s or Dravid’s inning saved because the teams concentrated on Sachin’s wicket! All this hype that you are talking about has been created by the media and not the cricketing faternity!
    Yes, he could not have won us many matches or thrown away his wicket when we needed the most, but really he has been the man who the bowlers have feared for a long time.. We cannot call somebody great unless they have records to back it!

    Kunal

  10. I read ur article where you tried to give ur point of view as whether sachin is really the greatest of all time. I think one of the major point which you missed is that Sachin has not only been a gr8 cricketer but a an amazing sportsman. He might not have brought any world cup (Aussies got it thrice in a row because they have a gr8 team alltogether and not coz f any single individual), he might not have won as amny matches as one wud want him to, But he certainly has shown the RESPECT to this game which NO one can match. Compare wth any one, Be it Ponting, Inzamam, Gilchrist, they have all been involved in unsporty stuff on the field. I think additionally Its the passion this humble guy has for the game that has let even an Australian like Sir Don Bradman speak gr8 thngs abt him which were not spoken for likes of waugh and Ponting.

  11. Kunal: I agree that the hype has been created by the Indian media and as it is, most of the cricketers have stopped reading articles written about them. This was just a reaction to Commentators only.
    Naveen: You are right about the Respect part, really can’t argue with that.

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