The Day i dread of...

As i was having my dinner tonight discussing about Sachin's knock with Warren, i asked him a question absolutely unrelated to the happenings of the day...

What when Sachin retires?

"Oh many people are gonna cry, it's gonna be some thing u have never seen ", was his reply...

As we egged him on to reach towards a 200, and then the disappointment of him getting retired hurt, i forgot our little discussion.....

An hour later, as i am sitting in library, supposedly to prepare for my midterm, my thoughts wandered back to the very same question i asked him...

Hmmm..Indian cricket without Sachin.. Can u ever imagine that???

To think of Indian cricket without Sachin, is unthinkable.. Across all the sports, legends have come and gone, they left a void ,but as time passed these voids were filled..
Basketball went through that phase when Jordon retired, but came along Kobe and then Lebron..
Football has been luckier with Zidane, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Messi all coming along in a quick span of time...
Ian Thorpe left, came along Michael Phelps,
Schumacher has been forgotten in the Hamilton Mania..

But when the question comes to Sachin, we are speechless..We have no answers..

Yes there have been months when he has not played for Team India, but the thought of him returning to the team was always there in the back of our minds.. You might say that it is gonna be very similar to when Sunny Gavaskar retired and it is gonna be similar with Sachin..

Well no..I don't think so....It will never be the same...



There might be arguments about Sachin being the greatest Indian Sporting athlete of his time, but there can be no arguments when it comes to who India's favorite sporting personality has been...

Tell me whose heart did not skip a beat when ever Sachin was batting.. Who was not disappointed when he did not score a century.. How many midnight discussion revolved around his innings.... Was he not the topic of discussion among ur school friends the next day of the match, whether he succeeded or not...Why does a Sachin century mean more to us than another cricketer's century?


Some where down the line we all thought he should retire because he was not good anymore..but did we ever imagine the day he finally hangs his boots before saying that...



The connection between Sachin and us is just not related to Cricket..From the day he walked on to the field in 1989 he was our family member.
His success was our success, his failure.. ours....
Can anyone ever replace ur family member.??

The answer to that question would be the answer to some one replacing Sachin..

Sachin grew with us.. He entered our lives as a 16 year old school boy, with curly hair and a squeaky voice, and he would leave as a husband and father of 2 kids. He has been in our lives for 20 years... Saying goodbye will never be easy...