He is 37 and has been a superstar for 20 years. Rare few, absolutely rare few, enjoy such honor. You can't even call the bugger 'lucky'. He toils hard for his success. As on date, Sachin must have run over 1000 kilometers across the wicket to score his 75000+ first class runs.
Every run he scored, every catch he pocketed, every four and six he hit, every boundary he saved, every match he won, every comment he made - there were over 1 billion people watching him.
Few women find him sexy, yet he has been the undisputed icon of last 3 generations of youth.
Sunil Gavaskar publicly touched his feet in a stadium - not out of admiration but out of sheer respect for his unending exploits in cricket....
...what a life!!!
When his father passed away in the midst of '99 World Cup, he flew to India, came back within 3 days and scored a blistering hundred - then looked up at heaven and spoke to his dad. I promised myself, that years later, when I sit with my grandchildren I would tell them how I saw all this live on TV, tears rolling down my eyes.
Einstein had once said about Gandhi -
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."Its a privilege to be born in the same generation as you Sachin.
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