I didn’t watch the single ball in the last match which
sachin played; I don’t even read news about it. Somehow I feel this series was
set us by BCCI telling him to take a gracefully exit from the cricket. I don’t
like that part, especially about the cricketer whom from my early age I have
seen doing impossible acts. He has been only reason why most people follow
cricket most of time, I remember a time when our whole match used to depend on
sachin, once sachin is out we used to shut our tv or used to think we would
lose match.
Sachin was not special because of his records, one day his
record will be broken but no one else will get the place the sachin has taken
in our hearts. Some people have that magic in them that they make everything
special, when everyone else used to defend in one day cricket he used to play
shot. That time people who play shot used to be said a pitch hitter or not a
proper cricketer, he was special in that sense because he used to play proper
cricketing shot and deliver the goods for the team. He each century is always
been helping cause for team, but I agree with this notion that he has never won
team more matchs.
As a cricketer has was one of the most gifted player of all
the time, he is like Pele and Marodona of football, people will come and go but
there status will not change. They are like god of that sports and sachin is
more than god of cricket. He may not be first to be called the best, but he has
redefined the sports in a way which only history will remember.
Sachin magic started to fade from me when I started to play
football in school, and that time I just swapped my icons in sports as well. No
longer was my life restricted to sachin, I don’t care about the sachin score,
his century and his records. Sachin is one of those players who have touched
our life in an unsaid or unexplained way. He might be gone, but story
surrounding his life will live on.
Ideally I should be sad that he has retired, but in reality
I am happy that he has retired. He is just filled so many colors in our life by
his runs and wicket that those memory will live on.
P.S.: I was more worried on the day Bhutia retired because I
was worried about india future in football, but in cricket I know Indian future
is secure, even though I don’t follow cricket now.