Great Indian Sedan

They say "Impossible is a concept created by the people who never tried to surpass the challenges, who never won a war, who never played a hero, who never weathered the odds. Impossible is the word coined by the mortals for the mortals and Sachin has proved time again that he is not bounded by the domain of Impossibility". Impossible is certainly nothing.

I started watching cricket at the age of 7 and i was very fortunate to watch Sachin smashing "Shen Warne" of late 80's i.e. legendary Pakistani spinner Abdul Qadir in 1989 for huge sixes. I was completely mesmerized by this little champ and i thought i have a figure to track and a game to follow. Sachin was never my idol, he has been more than that me. He has been an undisputed favourite of mine since 1989's. I was such a fan of Indian team in early 1990's that i can not write.

Lets give tribute to the undisputed God of India, who gave moments to enjoy in much communally/Ethnically/Politically/Financially/Socially troubled times of India.

The rise of a star
Sachin became a star immediately after smashing Abdul Qadir in a team full of legends like Kapil Dev, Ravi Shastri, Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohammad Azaharuddin and emerging ones in Siddhu, Sanjay Manjrekar, Manoj Prabhakar etc. India has found a hero.

Here comes the sunlight
Then came the famous India-England series and Sachin became the darling of British crowd after scoring a scintillating hundred at old Trafford in 1990 at the tender age of 17. I missed the match courtesy Doordarshan.

Here i come Mr. Bradman
The test series of 1991-1992 of India-Australia established Sachin as one of the top most batsmen of the world cricket and this very series also gave birth to the fiercest competitor of Sachin i.e Shen Warne. Sachin's century at Perth will remain one of his greatest innings.

The early 1990's also saw the rise of various other world class batsmen in Brian Lara, Mark Waugh, Injamam ul Haq, Vinod Kambli, Sanjay Manjrekar etc. Some went on to become great batsmen, others were not that fortunate like Kambli and Sanjay Manjrekar while the greatest seat was reserved for Sachin.
Sir Donald Bradman stamped the greatest seal on Sachin by making famous comments in 1996 that "Sachin reminds me of my days".

Sachin became the God

The 1998 Sarjah series made him the God of Indian public. His back to back centuries against all odds (Australians and the desert storm) in April were almost equal to the nuclear explosions done by India a month later.

Revival of Indian Cricket
The early and mid 90's saw many matches fought and won lonely by Sachin with literally no support from the other end. The year 1996 saw the revival of India cricket and India got three world class batsmen in Rahul, Sourav and Laxman and these players have been a bed rock of India since then. Sachin got much needed freedom to score freely and India has not looked back since then.

World Cup 2003
Sachin almost single handledly (no offense meant to Srinath, Zaheer, Nehra, Harbhajan, Ganguly and Dravid) brought india into the final. The greatest ODI glory of my life till date. He will never forget how close we were at Wanderers on very unfortunate date of Indian history 23rd March 2003. (same day India lost her brave souls in 1931).

From Gavaskar to Border and from Lara to Sachin
In early 90's Allan Border broke the Gavaskar's record of maximum number of test runs. Indian took about 15-16 years to win it back. Sachin please make sure that it will remain with us for ever.

Signing off.