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Showing posts with label 15000 runs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 15000 runs. Show all posts
It’s not time Sachin.
It never will be. Cricket will cease before it’s time. If that’s not possible, the world will.
Just as there is an Archaeological Survey of India, there is the BCCI. One runs cricket, the other is run by cricket.
Both will make sure you are never run into the ground. While one will ensure you play when it pleases you, the other will work to please you – at times in a roundabout warped way, could also mean criticism. So what, you will always be in the news. What, you will be the news.
Like the other day when you became an abstract number, 15,000 runs, another goal, hope we live to see that day.
And if there’s a rumour of your retirement, I hope it is just that. Like it was, last year or the year before that – can’t really tell, the years blur into each other.
Also, last few years there’s always been talk of your retirement; that in itself is a job profile – you are the transitional cricketer, yet there’s a permanence to you.
You are a series I hope never ends. And at the same time there’s nothing new to see.
But even if there isn’t, who cares, because it’s not time Sachin.
It never will be. You will play, even when you don’t. You are not a player, sir, you are the playmaker.
National treasures are held on to, not retired, ever.
It’s just that they’re not always fun.
It's time Sachin
It's alright if you want to score 15000 runs. But, at what cost?
I read at ducking beamers(or was it SOAL?),that going by your average you'd be done in 1 1/2 years.
But taking into the consideration that you're not exactly 22 years old now and one of your body parts keeps falling off in or at the end of every series, it could well be a lot more than that.
Effectively our beloved che and badri would have to shut shop, soon.
All of us know, what you've done for Indian cricket, the insight into the game that you have, your experience and all that.
But haven't you broken enough fingers in the slips, doesn't that back of yours give you certain hints, don't you ever feel like you're never going to reach the ball when you're chasing one in the outfield.
Even that occasional leg spin/off spin concoction has disappeared now.
It would be only fair, if you go when people would ask why, not why not.
by Prafs
blogs at Right Arm Fast
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