Finally, finally, finally Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from cricket this week. You know why he retired, because I wrote about him sometime back. Click here. :-)
We had much talked, debated, fought about his achievements. He is a great and entertaining batsman PERIOD.
Playing cricket or any other international sport for 24 years is not something a normal human being can do. Forget his fitness, which was always in a good shape, I wonder how was he motivated for such a long time. In this age, people get impatient at the drop of the hat, Sachin has performed a Thavam (not religious), I tried to find the English translation of Thavam, but couldn't find one. A close one will be “something which you do or follow your lifetime”. How does he feel mentally so strong, I can’t imagine his mindset, his thinking, his zeal to play cricket year-in & year-out.
“an extra-terrestrial
achievement
He almost gave his entire life, just to “hit the ball & score runs”. This is a simplest thing that anyone can do, but to do it for so many years and still making people to chant your name, whenever you walk-in to bat is an extra-terrestrial-achievement.
Most of his contemporaries retired from doing commentary when he just retired from playing cricket.
Thanks for entertaining and making us to count those thrilled moments.
**Note- Above picture collage by the blogger.
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