Hey Pals,
Saw you guys blogging about the GREAT man, I jus couldn't hold myself longer entering a new post (my work jus keeps me bz bz all the time). Well well well, what can we possibly say about this great man... The only guy playing international cricket since I started watching cricket, huh twenty years fulfilling the expectations of Millions, A MAN NEVER LEAVE A BETTER LEGACY TO THE WORLD. Inspite of all this the humble manner in which he conducts himself is truly an example for a perfect celebrity Trait. When Sachin's playing well, he puts a smile on billion faces. He has enthralled his legions of fans with many a great innings and srokes... Here's some...

143 at sharjah '98

Sachin unleashed some of his breathtaking strokes and power, none better than the Squarish push of Kasprowicz which sped to the boundary like a bullet that went snapping past the diving square fielder(catching position) between the fielders at point and square cover. NOBODY... literally no fielder moved an inch, even the cameraman was not sure where the ball was, by the time he spotted the ball, it had already hit the fence. Such is the greatness of this cricketing GOD... As Tony Greig said during the commentary of this match “This little man is the nearest thing to Bradman there’s ever been.” He also won an Opel Astra for his 137 in the finals which he dedicated to his wife, on his 25th birthday.

98 of 75 balls - 2003 worldcup vs PAK

I know Hesh has already narrated his version of this stroke - forward push of wasim akram that went past the extra cover. This stroke was easily better than the six over thirdman of shoaib akhtar. I would have seen this stroke more than one hundred times(courtesy youtube) and tried repeating it whenever I have nets sessions, dint even come 1% closer to what sachin hit that day. I also heard that Wasim akram was furious at Razzak after the later dropped him at mid off and asked "Do you know who you've dropped", now if an oppenent captain does that, you know who you are... It was Mahashivratri and people were going to Temples to worship Lord Shiva but who knew that the God himself had come to earth in the form of Sachin playing a glorious innings for INDIA.

Moinkhan BOWLED between the legs

I know we are talking about the mastery strokes of the master, none better than this particular delivery to Moinkhan. Sachin became Warne with the last ball of the day during the 1st test between India and Pakistan at multan. Sachin bowled 5 tight balls. The sixth one was a googly. Moin couldn’t quite read the ball and got stranded on the crease while the ball went through his pads and on to the middle stump. This is one of the greatest dismissals by a part time bowler and one of the few dismissals to happen on the last ball of the last over of the day.

Thats it folks... C ya around...

PS: For those who have no idea who this is... am a good old friend of the so-called Ramki (we used to call him RAMA), his college m8...