This article is written without prejudice and without malice to any living or known individual and is a figment of the writer's imagination and is an amazing concoction of the ideas that gnaw his mind!
I have always watched Sachin Tendulkar when he wrote the record books with someone called Vinod Kambli, both in their Shardashram school uniforms
I have always noted the gritting of his teeth or the cold steely look in his eyes to imagine that here was a 16 year old body built in a 30-35 year old brainwork or framework or something to convey the message to the readers
Sachin Tendulkar or Tendlya as he was affectionately called by his friends or teammates or by no one but the media, played some astonishingly one-sided innings in many tests whether it was "all happening at the WACA" or some other belter of a pitch or a someone named Bucknor who gave him out for the first time in test cricket taking the refuge of a third umpire whence he himself had let off Mr.Jonty Rhodes on some 30 odd runs on course to his 91 facesaving innings
Sachin took on the Imran Khans Waqar Younis[es] Merv Hughes[es] Allan Donalds et al in their own corridors and registered his presence with the unforgettable over of Sir Abdul Qadir and those famour sixes and the sledging which coloured them for us
Sachin was no Gavaskar and this is a statement for the less number of Bombayites in the Test Team
There have been so many unsung heroes of Bombay who could have made the test team
But unfortunately Bombay may win many a number of Ranji Duleep Irani Trophies but sadly an Abhishek Nair has to be replaced by Rohit Sharma---but a Sudeep Tyagi -Abhimanyu Mithun-Murali Vijay-Dinesh Karthik can walk in and out of an Indian Cricket Team however they want or their mentors want
Sachin is a lone man in the team with his lone bat [Reebok or Rebuke] and he does his own things his very own way in a lone manner
His reading of the Cricket pitch will never falter or his learning of the game will never end but his captaincy stint will be remembered for all the wrong reasons
A Bombay captain might not evoke the same sense of response from the other state players and therein lies the diversity in unity and the third class treatment meted out to the Bombay players currently
Probably the Dilip Sardesais Sunil Gavaskars Ajit Wadekars Eknath Solkars Polly Umrigars Paddy Shivalkars will never come back in throes in the Indian Cricket Team ever
Probably we would require a Sunil Gavaskar version at the helm to get the issue straightened but then what treatment Bombay gets in the Budget area even though 65% of the central coffers are filled by the financial capital of India is the same parallel that is there in Indian Cricket or Bombay Cricket
Departing leave behind footprints on the sands of time would be apt for the Bombay Dying Cricket
