SACHIN’S FALL FROM GRACE (4th Oct 2009, 0305 Hrs)

SACHIN’S FALL FROM GRACE (4th Oct 2009, 0305 Hrs)

Sachin Tendulkar’s failure at the recent ICC Champions Trophy was quiet obvious and usual to his norm (score a century and then ten innings score 100 runs in total), knowing that he had scored a century at the previous Compaq Cup only recently in September… so his next ten innings, Indian team can expect a dismissal performance for sure.

When a match is won because of Sachin, the media makes him the hero and never even mention the other ten players’ contribution in winning. However, when the team fails, while the Captain and his other nine players will get all the flak from the media, Sachin’s name will not even be mentioned for his failure to raise on the respective the occasion. No wonder, he is one of the greatest players, however, he has always stooped low to cover up his failure with injury or the recent one (fainted and fell in his hotel room because of dehydration)… Can you believe how heroes will stoop so low to cove up their failures?

Wonder of wonders, even if Sachin is drinking water or going for a loo break, the 24x7 media covers it all… but only in the recent case, no one, I repeat, no one knew about Sachin’s fall (from grace) and his unconscious state? Only when Sachin returns home in Mumbai, the media cooks up all cock & bull stories (courtesy Sachin’s PR activitiy)… What is surprising is that the whole media is blaming Dhoni and the other nine players for their dismissal performance but tell me, what happened to the great Sachin Tendulkar? Why did he fail to perform against Pakistan? Why the media is not blaming him for not playing for the nation’s pride? If India can win matches only because Sachin is playing, then India also lost in ICC Championship trophy because of Sachin not performing at the crucial game against Pakistan.

Among the two matches that he played against Pakistan and Australia respectively, he batted only in one inning to score just EIGHT runs… truly PATHETIC! And the way he gave the catch in the slip areas, shows his lack of interest to play for the nation… Game versus Australia was washed away due to rain. However, knowing well that even if India would win against the depleted side of West Indies, the nation is still out from the championship… so cool, he doesn’t even bother to be part of the tea, and suddenly media reported Sachin was unfit to play.

Sachin can stoop so low to garner sympathy from the media to cover up his recent failure, shows his fall from grace. While the team manager says that Sachin had dinner at a restaurant with three more players, there is other version, which is making the round (Sachin drank something in ground, which made him to go in a dehydrated state)… while the media cooks up cock & bull story, they don’t even use their ‘Common Sense’ that a player like Sachin has played since the last 20 years international cricket… so does that mean that he was so careless about being an international player to do such silly stupid things? Is Sachin a three-year-old child that he couldn’t call the team’s doctor (who is 24x7 with the team?) when he was feeling uneasy after having a gala time at the restaurant? Has he become so careless towards his commitment towards his nation that a night before the match, he goes out with three players (as per the team manager) to have dinner at a restaurant? Where was the 24x7 media? Why the media didn’t cover his dinner date? How the team’s official allowed the players to go out for dinner? While the team manager knows that Sachin went out with three players, however, he doesn’t know or reveal who the other three players are… and the electronic media anchors ham ham and goes on hamming about how poor Sachin fainted (as if they were right in front of him watching him fall, how stupid Indian media can be really) and fell and Coolie style was injured by the side of the table…

Face it Sachin… you have grown old now and all you are playing for is for your own personal record and spoiling India’s chance of winning. Dhoni and his young guns without SACHIN, SAURAV and GANGULY became the T20 World Champions to lift the maiden trophy…. By playing you in the team, another talent in the waiting is being wasted… Time to step down graciously rather than STOOPING SO LOW TO COVER UP YOUR FAILURE…