SachinnnnnnnN SachinnnnnnnnNNN....
Sarjah's desert storm in 90's is the first thing comes to my mind whenever I think of cricket
I remember Gaglas's big home with small TV room about 20persons in the room so many people watching standing from outside the room on the roads that gathered because of our noise and voice that creates such a bad sore throat that for next two days voice can't come out of my throat!!!
That's how kids of my generation witnessed Sachin's sport that people now called "cricket".
When we heard of crackers from one corner I think it may be some marriage ceremony,
but when we heard of crackers all around other than Diwali we knew it must be a boundary, Sixer or a century by none other than SACHIN... That's how I grew up as young kid in a town called Keshod.
I scored less in 10th grade because, because we have had world cup at that time!
I scored less in 12th grade because we have had some other cricket series at that time!
And even if someone got 99% all of us use to have same reason even for losing that 1%
And I must believe that every child is damn honest, that's how the era of Sachin's time.
Life moved on, Heroes all around having new names be it Cricket, Tennis, Football, F1
or for that matter any other sport or any other field movies, politics just anything else
Sachin is the only Hero remain constant all these years
Back in boarding school at JNVPBR, when I started watching cricket got confuse between Sachin and Manjrekar as both of them looked same behind the helmet..
Time goes by and there was a time when I can tell you if Sachin is on strike or not at this time,
if Sachin scored boundry or missed a ball, if Sachin scored century or missed in 90's...
And none of this IF's needed me to in front of TV!!! Because the voice and noise of people use to be same in streets as it could be ib stadium and it can be heard anywhere, ...around all the shops, around all the streets, all the corners, just everywhere!
One could look around the street and knew if Sachin is still playing,
One could look the faces of people and group discussions and knew if he hit century or missed one!
All the group discussions at Pan walla's to Tea stoles to Barber shops were concentrated on only thing that how Sachin should have played his last ball and how he should approach next ball, as if all of us wants to do PHD on how Sachin should play!
And I can bet none of the GD topic in interview can beat these GD by the relatively illiterate's around the villages. None of the cricketing coaches can analyse the game to such details, not only that
"Sometimes I really doubt even if Sachin is really that passionate about his own game as we are about his game!" And most importantly, I don't have to explain my last statement to our generation, That's how we ALL are passionate about his game...
And now that he bids farewell to the game I can not find any words that can summarize the countless moments of happiness, moments of togetherness, moments of hope along with moments of high BP and the almost heart attack moments :) that he has given to our generation...
I wish I can remember each and every of these moments for long long time, so that when I retire I can tell all these stories to my grand children.
Sarjah's desert storm in 90's is the first thing comes to my mind whenever I think of cricket
I remember Gaglas's big home with small TV room about 20persons in the room so many people watching standing from outside the room on the roads that gathered because of our noise and voice that creates such a bad sore throat that for next two days voice can't come out of my throat!!!
That's how kids of my generation witnessed Sachin's sport that people now called "cricket".
When we heard of crackers from one corner I think it may be some marriage ceremony,
but when we heard of crackers all around other than Diwali we knew it must be a boundary, Sixer or a century by none other than SACHIN... That's how I grew up as young kid in a town called Keshod.
I scored less in 10th grade because, because we have had world cup at that time!
I scored less in 12th grade because we have had some other cricket series at that time!
And even if someone got 99% all of us use to have same reason even for losing that 1%
And I must believe that every child is damn honest, that's how the era of Sachin's time.
Life moved on, Heroes all around having new names be it Cricket, Tennis, Football, F1
or for that matter any other sport or any other field movies, politics just anything else
Sachin is the only Hero remain constant all these years
Back in boarding school at JNVPBR, when I started watching cricket got confuse between Sachin and Manjrekar as both of them looked same behind the helmet..
Time goes by and there was a time when I can tell you if Sachin is on strike or not at this time,
if Sachin scored boundry or missed a ball, if Sachin scored century or missed in 90's...
And none of this IF's needed me to in front of TV!!! Because the voice and noise of people use to be same in streets as it could be ib stadium and it can be heard anywhere, ...around all the shops, around all the streets, all the corners, just everywhere!
One could look around the street and knew if Sachin is still playing,
One could look the faces of people and group discussions and knew if he hit century or missed one!
All the group discussions at Pan walla's to Tea stoles to Barber shops were concentrated on only thing that how Sachin should have played his last ball and how he should approach next ball, as if all of us wants to do PHD on how Sachin should play!
And I can bet none of the GD topic in interview can beat these GD by the relatively illiterate's around the villages. None of the cricketing coaches can analyse the game to such details, not only that
"Sometimes I really doubt even if Sachin is really that passionate about his own game as we are about his game!" And most importantly, I don't have to explain my last statement to our generation, That's how we ALL are passionate about his game...
And now that he bids farewell to the game I can not find any words that can summarize the countless moments of happiness, moments of togetherness, moments of hope along with moments of high BP and the almost heart attack moments :) that he has given to our generation...
I wish I can remember each and every of these moments for long long time, so that when I retire I can tell all these stories to my grand children.
