The final ball of first inning. He guarded the deep cover boundary. Batsman whacks the ball in about 10 feet’s distance. He latches at it and plunges the most spectacular catch. The dismal fielding performances until now, by the young guns, get cover from the veteran, not until the opponents have piled a mammoth 350.
He opened the innings alongside the ‘Dynamite’. Rest what followed is a golden history. The ‘Dyno’ exploded for a brief period. The ‘Golden boy’ and the ‘Flair boy’ returned soon. With them hopes too. The team gave up. The spectators, turned off.
Meanwhile the cuts, the pulls, the drives and the scoops made an evening delicacy for the Hyderabad folks. He defended, he ran, he danced down and he smashed. The ‘Rising hope’ accompanied him well until the rush of blood made him prey. He makes a century, and a half and marches for a double when the chicken-hearts denied him strike and gifted the match away.
Every run he scores is a landmark. Every century he scores is feather on cap. He has all, but is humble as a child. Most runs, most matches, man of the matches, centuries, half’s and many more. Such is a person, Sachin is his name.
Salute!
(Sachin’s ODI hundred against Australia was a superb batting spectacle. The audacity of run scoring was at its peak. Nothing is blissful then watching Sachin bat, as he did in Hyderabad.)
He opened the innings alongside the ‘Dynamite’. Rest what followed is a golden history. The ‘Dyno’ exploded for a brief period. The ‘Golden boy’ and the ‘Flair boy’ returned soon. With them hopes too. The team gave up. The spectators, turned off.
Meanwhile the cuts, the pulls, the drives and the scoops made an evening delicacy for the Hyderabad folks. He defended, he ran, he danced down and he smashed. The ‘Rising hope’ accompanied him well until the rush of blood made him prey. He makes a century, and a half and marches for a double when the chicken-hearts denied him strike and gifted the match away.
Every run he scores is a landmark. Every century he scores is feather on cap. He has all, but is humble as a child. Most runs, most matches, man of the matches, centuries, half’s and many more. Such is a person, Sachin is his name.
Salute!
(Sachin’s ODI hundred against Australia was a superb batting spectacle. The audacity of run scoring was at its peak. Nothing is blissful then watching Sachin bat, as he did in Hyderabad.)
यह दिल मांगे मोर .......
I’m the man..
ReplyDeleteI’ve come for your money and all your honey coz i can..
I’m the man..
a legend with the ladies cant believe how crazy i am.. coz i can..
I’m the man..
exactly...Spectacle....actualy no single word can describe the feelings, emotions a true cricket or rather Sachin fan was going through watching him bat yesterday.
ReplyDeleteafter many a innings....sachin played like the SACHIN he was and he should always be....
U always interacting the articles with cricket. Something put different which should be out of the ordinary.
ReplyDelete@ Yogesh:
ReplyDeleteActually, m still gathering my breath...
The splendid emotions of your post more than condone the loose motions of your idiom. Great piece, man! Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteYes, that chase was absolutely thrilling...unfortunately we lost the match but he won all hearts!
Condeming Sachin for the loss is like picturing the Allah, drawing the irotic poses of Godesses, unturbaning the Sikhs and questioning the Jesus. It is so disturbing that a person like him is critisied as a 'personal-gain' player.
ReplyDeleteHarsha Bhogle once said "Even the Gods stop their holy work to see Sachin bat".