Sachin Tendulkar- India’s Little Master!
Sachin is India’s one of the greatest cricket players. He is affectionately called ‘The Little Master’, or ‘The Master Blaster’ is a current Indian cricketer who was rated by Wisden in 2002 as the second greatest Test Cricket and ODI batsman of all time after the legendary Sir Don Bradman and Viv Richards respectively. He holds multiple records such as the leading Test century scorer, leading ODI century scorer, one of only three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in test cricket as well as being the first Indian to do so, and the most career ODI runs and most overall career run tally.
Tendulkar made his international debut in 1989 and is an all-time crowd-favorite. He is the only Indian cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honor for his performance in 1997-1998. Many of his fellow players, past and present, and cricket experts, regard him as one of the greatest batsmen the game has ever seen.
When he became the first batsman to score 50 hundreds in international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar established himself as the greatest of all Indian cricketers. Recognized by Sir Donald Bradman as his modern incarnation, Tendulkar has a skill – a genius – which only a handful has possessed. It was not a skill that he was simply born with, but one which was developed by his intelligence and an infinite capacity for taking pains. If there is a secret, it is that Tendulkar has the keenest of cricket minds. At times in a Test series he looks mortal. But he learns every lesson, picks up every cue, dominates the opposing attack sooner or later, and nearly always makes a hundred.
His bravery was proved after he was hit on the head on his Test debut in Pakistan, when he was only 16; and his commitment to the Indian cause has never been in doubt. If captaincy – or rather the off-field management of men less skilled than himself – was beyond him at his first attempt, his readings of the game, and his manifold varieties of bowling, have shown the same acute intelligence.
His cricket has been played in the right way too, always attacking, and because he knew that was the right way rather than because he was a child of the one-day age, as he himself modestly said. The awe of opponents was as great as that of crowds. But the finest compliment must be that bookmakers would not fix the odds – or a game – until Tendulkar was out. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar, his guru, as the leading century-maker in Test cricket with his 35th three-figure score in November 2005.
However, He is not active nowadays and his old skills are not showing up. He is getting weaker and he’s not able to make strong strikes. But still he has the potential and therefore, he is still playing in the Indian Cricket team. The question is whether he should play in the Indian cricket team on the Cricket world Cup 2011. It’s still s a doubt that he will play or not. But in my opinion, he will not play because he is more 20 years now and by that time he will be weaker. Similarly, for the other Indian players like Ganguly, I think they should a chance to the younger players.
