Sachin@20. What the World said about Master Blaster.




"If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard."
Dennis Lillee



"Sachin is cricket's God."
Barry Richards




"Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours."
Michael Kasprowicz



"I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you, he'd do okay."
Greg Chappell





“You only get to see one Tendulkar in a lifetime. In the next 100 years you will not witness another Tendulkar. He is once in a Century player.”
Muttiah Muralitharan




"He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling."
Richie Benaud

Sachin@20. What the World said about Master Blaster-Part 2.



“There are 2 kinds of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar, Two all the others.”
Andy Flower




"You get him out and half the battle is won."
Arjuna Ranatunga




"If sachin plays well, India sleeps well. There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat."
Harsha Bhogle




"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can you bowl me another one?"
Adam Hollioke




"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin."
Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)


"He is someone sent from up there to play cricket and go back."

Ravi Shashtri





"I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best."
Sir Garfield Sobers



(To be continued...)

If Cricket is Religion, Sachin is ……….

‘TIME’ Magazine on its special issue,“60 years of Asian heroes”, featured Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. As per Time, he is “the greatest living exponent of his craft”. I have my own doubts. The magazine went on saying how Don Bradman, the legendary Australian cricketer, saw similarities in his and Sachin’s play.

Now the issue is not how great is (read was) Sachin but his relevance in the present Indian Cricket team.

The ICC World cup is round the corner and a billion hearts beating hard, is Sachin capable of bringing back the World Cup? Or audience in West Indies will get a chance to emulate the Mumbai crowd and boo him?

What’s his role in the Team?

A senior player who set stds for others to follow?
A moral supporter?
Or just one among 11?

When Andre Agassi, American Tennis Player, retired from professional Tennis media went on asking

Whether Sachin will do what Agassi did?

God only knows……. It’s not all over yet……