17 Oct 08 Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar - God of Cricket

“If cricket is my religion, then Tendulkar is my god”.. These are the non famous words uttered by totally non famous person living in a small suburb area, not visible on Google maps, with the name “Hariharan”. Yea thats me!

Today, Sachin scored the elusive 14 runs needed to overthrow the record made by my yet another favorite Brian Lara. When he reached 11954, there was no stopping him. He went on to make 88 runs from 111 balls, today before falling to Peter Siddle (Congratulations mate, you’ve nailed the big fish). I always thought 111 was an unlucky number, like the umpire David Shepherd does. Yes, it was truly unlucky as Sachin happened to get out in the closing moments of the day.

Albeit scoring a bit slow, It was a welcome change to see thalaivar tendiya batting positively. Thalaivar played like the god he is, smashing 10 sweet fours in a juicy pitch. India sauntered to a good first day score of 311/5. Hope they keep the pace up tomorrow as well and reach a possible 600.

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