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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Cricket
Amidst the breast beating surrounding the retirement of Sachin Tendulkar, I sat through a sad piece of interviewing by one Boria Majumdar, a sports journalist.
The gent was interviewing a galaxy of stars; Brian Lara, Rameez Raja, Gautam Gambhir and the bad boy of Pakistan cricket S.Akhtar. Well the drift was as follows: Sachin was the greatest to have graced the cricket field and stands above the rest. While I love Sachin, Boria's stand is a bit rich.
How can one compare, Sir Gary Sobers, Viv Richards, Brian Lara,Sachin Tendulkar and the great Don Bradman. All of them batted their way to history in different era's and demolished the best of their time. Bradman of course stands tall with his average of 99.94. An awesome feat which has since not been matched.
Boria's stand is that Sachin is greater than the Don, simply because the latter did not play in India. Well, he did play against India in Australia and literally nailed every Indian bolwler. Importantly the Don missed five years of cricket due to one Adolf Hitler jack booting through Europe and WW2, while in his prime.
Sachin tendulkar is our pride and a great cricketer but to place him on a pedestal is robbing cricket of that place. The game deserves better.Sachin was a child prodigy who fulfilled that promise..jpg)
Rahul Dravid's count of 8 series-defining performances in Test cricket is not just the highest for any Indian Test cricketer, it is the highest by any batsman in all of Test cricket history. This is what makes Rahul Dravid such a giant even in international cricket. How does he compare with Sachin?
The game of cricket is a great one and can we leave it at that please?
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Much as I have enjoyed his artwork, it would be wise to recall that his retirement was imminent the moment his career started to flourish. the all England tennis and croquet club made a telling comment last decade that the lease of SW19 centre court has been extended to roger federer by one year. well sachins lease has expired but will be sad to see him go.
Now Boria is of course a lot of noise and hot air- i have witnessed his performance many a time. the monkeygate scandal when harbhajan called symonds a monkey(allegedly) saw boria yelling- about the triumph of injustice. Well actually Harbhajan did not in fact call him monkey- no sir he said tere ma ki--- which was far worse than a racist epithet. Boria the sad sack chose to keep silent on this.
Guess just when we thought it was safe to switch on tv, boria crawled out of the woodwork again, now with his across era comparison.
Like you said sir, his statement of Sachin being the best is patently absurd and indefensible.
after all each player is special, and the game greater than individuals but i suspect that Boria has his mind more on the TRP ratings and the additions to his pay packet than any real issues.
You have nailed it Vishnu!
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