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‘God’ failed, many changed religion! Time for Tendulkar to say
Goodbye?
Tuesday November 27, 2012 03:20:24 PM,
Md Mudassir Alam
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“If Cricket is Religion, Sachin is
God”, this quote used to be favourite a couple of seasons back for
cricket lovers and die-hard fans of Master Blaster Sachin
Tendulkar. However, the back-to- back dismal performances by Tendulkar in last two tests against England and also in the recent
past has compelled the followers to change their religion as their
‘God’ Tendulkar failed to save the team India. I am not here to
criticise world’s best proven cricketer and winners of countless
national and international awards. In his 23-year-old cricket
career Tendulkar has made many records in both formats ODIs (One
Day Internationals) as well as test including maximum number of
Man of the Match Awards.
But after 10 wickets defeat of India against England at Wankhede
Stadium in Mumbai once again Tendulkar faced severe criticism due
to his poor scoring of 8 runs in both the innings. Even in first
test of the series at Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad the little
master scored only 13 runs. The cricket lovers, fans and experts
didn’t criticised Tendulkar much for the Ahmedabad debacle as team
India won the match. On Monday (November 26, 2012) the patience of
all crossed limits and even the followers of Cricket as religion
thought to change the religion as their ‘God’ miserably failed
before the English spinner Monty Panesar.
If we see the record book, Tendulkar’s last 10 Test innings have
yielded just 153 runs at an average of 15.3 per inning. The
figures obviously raise the calls for Sachin’s retirement and
create doubts in his followers mind. At the meantime, the Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCC) says the maestro will himself
decide when it is time to go. BCCI official Rajiv Shukla in his
address to media said, “He will hang up his boots when he thinks
it’s time for him to go. He does not need any advice on this.
Before making a comment on his performance you have to see his
colossal record and his past performance. “Even veteran cricketers
like Sunil Gavaskar came forward in support of Sachin Tendulkar.
The irony is that Tendulkar is a ‘God’ like figure for cricket
lovers and his fans, but this is the time to think about the
future of Indian cricket about which a majority of people in the
country are crazy. There is no any doubt that Tendulkar can’t make
a come back or score a hundred. But howlong we can wait for that
and how many innings Tendulkar will take. It will be totally
unjustified if we wait for the good time to come. Tendulkar is
already in 40s and he has plenty of cricket behind him in his
around 25 year cricket career. While dependable batsmen like
Rahul Dravid and V.V.S. Laxman who are no less contributors to the
India Batting story bid adieu and vacated the place for new
comers, why Tendulkar is not having such a great heart? It seems
there is some sort of biasness towards Tendulkar and the BCCI
seems overly reluctant to make up its mind on Sachin’s future
although Sachin himself indicated in a recent television interview
that he was unlikely to play the next World Cup.
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