The Legend

One of the supernatural talents any human possess in this world is “the art of criticism”. We criticize on everything and anything we see and hear. Now it’s the turn to criticize the legend, the master “Sachin Tendulkar”. Do you think we really have any rights to criticize him? Till today is there any sports person in this country who touched the peaks as he did. Becoming a sports person is not like eating an ice cream; to become a legend you need sheer talent, dedication and hell a lot of hard work. Well now almost every cricket fan along with the media had started criiticizing about the bad patch sachin is facing. Its not now, we have been doing this since he stepped into the international arena. I have been a great fan of him for years and still I am a great fan of the master blaster. He broke almost all the records and he is not going to end it so soon. We have been backing him till he climbed the Everest and touched the peak, now when he is slipping down lets try to give a hand and pull him back to the peak; let’s not kill him by pushing down from the top of the mountain. We should feel shameful if we do that. Let’s at least try to respect for his 16 long years of service to his country and the people.


I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... high compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel!

-Don Bradman, the greatest batsman cricket has ever seen

Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives.

--BBC Sports, on Sachin Tendulkar.

His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world... [When he goes out to bat], it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The people see him as a God...

--Mathew Hayden, Australian Cricketer on Sachin Tendulkar.

I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone , apart from Don Bradman , is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

--Shane Warne, after Australia's tour of India and Coca-Cola Cup in Sharjah.

You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.

--Brett Lee, on Sachin Tendulkar's batting, 1999

Whenever I see Sachin play I am reminded of the Greame Pollock quote of Cricket being a 'see the ball, hit the ball game.' He hits the ball if the it's there to be hit.

--Ian Chappell

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

--Ravi Shastri