A miracle tonight, anybody?
If you are a Sachin fan, these are some real difficult times, where the Master has been booed by his own home crowd and talks of him being dropped from the team. Times we thought we would never come to face, times which we can not still believe it is here, times we thought only ordinary mortals will have to experience & not immortals like Sachin.
As a die-hard Sachin fan, it has been a pain to see his struggles with the bat of late in tests. Something I still can not understand why it is happening bcos he looks to be in pretty good nick in the ODIs, which in my opinion, is more difficult to succeed amidst a form slump. That 95 against Pakistan in the 3rd ODI was top notch.
The following 2 articles deal with the booing that Sachin got - while the first looks for reasons behind the act by some stupid idiots (I can not make myself say them as fans), the latter tries to find out reasons behind the act. The first article sees Nirmal Shekar at his usual best - carefully worded and at the same time, hinting that while it is not a crime to think about dropping Sachin, but it is definitely one booing the little master. Do read them...
Trashing Tendulkar isn't cricket
Joining the ranks of the mortals
Tonight, there is a chance for him to regain some of the lost glory. But to be very frank, I am not sure if he will be able to do it, bcos on top of playing under extreme & unprecedented pressure (to perform) and a 5th day pitch chasing a never before chased total on Indian soil, he has his shoulder injury to take care of too. So, if Sachin does pull off an unbelievable innings tonight, it would be nothing short of a miracle.
As always signing off with a heavy & hopeful heart. After all, as as they say, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
As a die-hard Sachin fan, it has been a pain to see his struggles with the bat of late in tests. Something I still can not understand why it is happening bcos he looks to be in pretty good nick in the ODIs, which in my opinion, is more difficult to succeed amidst a form slump. That 95 against Pakistan in the 3rd ODI was top notch.
The following 2 articles deal with the booing that Sachin got - while the first looks for reasons behind the act by some stupid idiots (I can not make myself say them as fans), the latter tries to find out reasons behind the act. The first article sees Nirmal Shekar at his usual best - carefully worded and at the same time, hinting that while it is not a crime to think about dropping Sachin, but it is definitely one booing the little master. Do read them...
Trashing Tendulkar isn't cricket
Joining the ranks of the mortals
Tonight, there is a chance for him to regain some of the lost glory. But to be very frank, I am not sure if he will be able to do it, bcos on top of playing under extreme & unprecedented pressure (to perform) and a 5th day pitch chasing a never before chased total on Indian soil, he has his shoulder injury to take care of too. So, if Sachin does pull off an unbelievable innings tonight, it would be nothing short of a miracle.
As always signing off with a heavy & hopeful heart. After all, as as they say, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
posted by Filbert at 3:16 PM
2 Comments:
Filbert,
As you wish sachin scored 1/3 of the team score. As a sachin fan, i am not able to digest the way how mumbai fans behaved. Letz see our master after 2 months.
Praying to be recovered soon..
Thats true. Sachin belongs to the elite band of sportsmen who should be revered, no matter how they are performing in the short term. In that way, the Mumbai crowd's behaviour was appalling, to say the least.
Just like he came back with a bang in ODIs after the tennis elbow surgery, hopefully he should come back all rejuvenated for the WI series in May-June.
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