Sachin Creates History!

Hats off to one of the great bastman's in the history of modern cricket, my hero, my role model and my inspiration - Sachin Tendulkar. On October 17, 2008 Sachin Creates history by breaking the world record for most number of runs in the history of test cricket and becomes the first man to score 12,000 runs. Sachin broke the record of most number of runs of Brian Charles Lara, the elegant left hander from West Indies, contemporary of Sachin Tendulkar. Interestingly Brian Lara also made the record of most number of runs in test cricket against the test in Australia. These great batsmen of 90's and 2000's have a liking for the best team in the world.
Co-incidentally this happens to be the birthday of Jumbo - the current captain of Indian Test Cricket Team, who eventually could not play today's match because of shoulder injury.

Lara and Tendulkar are the great batsman of this era of cricket which people like me have grown up seeing them play. Lara who happens to be the left handed batsman in contrast to Sachin being the right handed batsman. Both these men have been the spine of the batting lines up of their respective teams for most part of the last two decades. I would love to see them play all the time. These people have played all around the world and won the hearts of millions of cricket loving fans.

I am a die-hard fan of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. I don't mind what people keep talking about his game. I only want him to play as long as he plays. Sachin happens to be the humble person, who inspite of being the great batsman of this era is still down to earth and always lets his bat answer the critics. In this same match, Sachin's contemporary, compatriot and the southpaw who is the God of offside cricket, Sourav Ganguly crossed the mile stone of scoring more than 7000 runs and is the only 4th Indian to have done so after Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. I respect Ganguly for what he has given Indian cricket, the agressive face and the winning habit. Though I always think Ganguly had to face the unnecessary political issues of the cricket board in India but if I had to believe the reports that surfaced during the latter part of his captaincy days, it looks like he was part of the same politics in his time.

Anyways, keeping all the politics apart and being a true fan of Indian Cricket, I strongly believe that Indian team is going to miss the lethal combination of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and Sourav Chandra Ganguly. The opening pair that ruled the world of ODI's in the late 90's and ealry 2000's. However, co-incidentally, Ganguly has been around when Sachin scored the most number of test hundreds surpassing Sunil Gavaskar and scored the most number of test centuries surpassing Brian Lara. Sourav has no doubt been the great captain's India has ever produced. In the current test Sourav scored his 16th test century, 2nd against Australia and first against the neumero uno team in India.

These cricketing legends have been our role models to many of the younger Indian generation, they have carried the burden of the Indian cricket in the last two decades. Have enjoyed the status of demi God and at the same time have seen the anger of the cricket crazy nation. These great players of Indian Cricket Team.. Sachin, Sourav, Rahul, Laxman and Anil have done there job and they have nothing to prove to the world, they have proved what they are capable of number of times.It's only that this cricket crazy, greedy nation always wants them to put India on top and have a short lived memory who almost always forget the achievements of these people and are ever ready to criticize them. As Sachin had put it after achieving this great feat that "turned the stones thrown at him into milestones and conquered those milestones." These people will live forever in the hearts of the cricket fans even after they leave the field.