Well …for a couple of days I was getting pretty irritated with our media competing with each other in a tail wagging competition around Sachin Tendulkar completing 20 years in International Cricket. 
In my own blinkered view, I find cricket a highly overrated game and other than the T20 version, a major waste of time. T20 version is good only as a form of entertainment, not sport.
While Sachin has crossed several milestones in the last 20 years and done his country proud, I would like to know where Indian cricket has travelled in the last 20 years. Not much if you ask me….except for the T20 World Cup (not exactly a connoisseur’s delight).
If the goal of a national player is bring accolades to the team, or make it capable to achieve such objectives, I do not think Sachin stacks up very well.
So as I was trying to keep my cool with this media hoopla, even as celebrities of all hue and colour fell over each other to sing paeans to Sachin we have the sudden messianic appearance of the great Balasaheb.
This man takes the cake….or vada pao (Jai Maharashtra!!!) if you please. He surpasses all levels of irritation and invites a tremendous sense of disgust.
In my own blinkered view, I find cricket a highly overrated game and other than the T20 version, a major waste of time. T20 version is good only as a form of entertainment, not sport.While Sachin has crossed several milestones in the last 20 years and done his country proud, I would like to know where Indian cricket has travelled in the last 20 years. Not much if you ask me….except for the T20 World Cup (not exactly a connoisseur’s delight).
If the goal of a national player is bring accolades to the team, or make it capable to achieve such objectives, I do not think Sachin stacks up very well.
So as I was trying to keep my cool with this media hoopla, even as celebrities of all hue and colour fell over each other to sing paeans to Sachin we have the sudden messianic appearance of the great Balasaheb.
This man takes the cake….or vada pao (Jai Maharashtra!!!) if you please. He surpasses all levels of irritation and invites a tremendous sense of disgust.
Comrade Balasaheb took serious umbrage to Sachin speaking words to the effect that he is an Indian first and Maharashtrian later. Howzzat!!!
This same man in the past cried foul when members of the minority community said “We are Muslims first and Indian later”.
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