The Little Master is over the Mount Everest and waiting for the moon

Recently I was watching the one day encounter between India and Australia and not for a single minute I could move my feet for a break because of the presence of the champion batsman, Sachin tendulkar. The stunning knock of 175 was just unbelievable.Yes this was an amazing game of cricket; the game of glorious uncertainty and thanks to people like Sachin Tendulkar who have made this gentleman’s game more beautiful.The hunger, the passion, the determination and the love for the game is still the same,what it used to be in 1989, when this ultimate god of cricket toured to Pakistan for the first time being a 16 year old kid and facing furious people like Waker Younis and Wasim Akram
Chasing 351 under lights and that to against a team like Australia, was not a matter of joke but the master had other ideas. In spite of all the recent criticism that he should have made way for Gambhir for the opening slot, he batted like a champion, sending the ball to the boundary, running hard between the wickets for ones and twos and most importantly, hitting those big sixes. We all saw his whole 20 years of experience in that innings. He was cool,compact and fresh like a 20 year old boy even at the age of 36. Unfortunately he was not able to see his team through, a very similar kind of situation when he scored 136 and India lost to Pakistan because it lost 4 wickets for 15 odd runs and were short by 4 runs.This time India lost to Australia by 3 runs. Not often we see people making 175 runs and still are in the losing side. In the presentation ceremony the body language of Sachin wastelling it all. He was running short of words and just wandering how the other batsmen could not have reached the target.
The champion had been compared to Don Bradman, Viv Richards, Brian Lara previously and in recent days with Ricky Ponting but each time he came out as the winner because whenever there was a strong criticism, you could expect the best out of Sachin’s staggering blade. He was the best batsman ever for some great talents of the game like Shane Warne, Mcgrath, Allan Donald, Wasim Akram and the list continues. Once he was batting with Ravi Shastri and told him to mind his own game and let him finish his century,when given some suggestion in the middle. In that match he made a stunning knock of 148 in a bouncy track like Perth and that to being a boy of 18.
In the current series against Srilanka, Sachin crossed the Mount Everest; 30000 runs in all forms of international cricket which is beyond imagination for any cricketer in the present era or the days to come.The latest century against Srilanka must have given him tremendous satisfaction because previously he was not considered as a real match winner but not now though. Nobody knows when this batting genius is going to retire from the game, but he will definitely be there as the ultimate God of cricket.