sachin tendulkar – a 37 year old virgin...

a lot has been said about sachin... he has been praised... dissected from every possible angle... writing anything (new) about sachin, the player, is like showing light to the sun...

cliché isn't it...? this is what sachin to me is...

so today on his 37th birthday... and more importantly... his 20th birthday as an international player... i wish sachin loses his cricketing virginity...

i wish the chastity he has been religiously protecting shall melt away and we shall see the real sachin ramesh tendulkar...

the one who has faced and passed 20 years of intense scrutiny... the one who would really have opinions instead of cliché he has been feeding us ever since... the one who, by his sheer authority, can make things happen... the one who would say what is in his heart... khull ke... the one who would come up and say "yeah... if i got a nice shot to keep orange cap then why not...?"

so sachin... give us a birthday to remember... let the real transition begin...

lets start with the question manu joseph asked some time back...

do you really like being called 'little' master...?

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little master... talking about the little master...

In many ways, 1987 was a watershed year. I remember batting particularly well, making more than 1500 runs, so it was disappointing not to get the best junior cricketer award from the Mumbai Cricket Association.

That’s when I got a letter from him. He wrote that I should not be disappointed because bigger awards were in store. At the end, he mentioned that if I looked at the list of players who had received the award, there would be one name missing that hadn’t done too badly in international cricket!

He was referring to himself. That letter is as valuable as any other award I have ever received. That was the beginning of a long and cherished association.

a piece of unadulterated emotions from sachin tendulkar...for his hero...sunil manohar gavaskar...turning sixty today...

"You've always been my hero..."

as namya said...looking forward to yet another century from you sunny sir...

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