As An Indian

[Sid]

I wanna see another Sachin Tendulkar,Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev

[Sachin=GOD]

There can never be another player like Goddy :(( and I most certainly will stop watching cricket after he retires

[Andy]

I wanna see another Sachin Tendulkar' date='Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev [/quote'] ++ VVS Lxman, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly too :two_thumbs_up:

[Sid]

++ VVS Lxman' date=' Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly too :two_thumbs_up:[/quote'] Ya all of them too plus Anil Kumble :P

[fineleg]

after tendulkar retires, do you wana see another tendulkar in india?, say someone who is going to bat for another 2 decades and will be as popular as tendulkar is around the world and will achive as much if not more? to me, even though it will be good for the indian team, but i dont want to see another tendulkar. i simply dont want anyone from india ever take or over take tendulkars popularity or postion as cricket,human and god among indians. what about you guys?

[someone]

Since when have you lot become so crazy over an single individual over the whole team. This is not Sachin Team, but it is Team India. Anyday I will take a WC win over Sachin scoring the highest runs in the tournament. And it is not up to us to decide if we will get another Sachin. First, we might already have some future legends already in our team. Sachin will be legend but there is plenty of space for even bigger or on par legends

[CSK Fan]

Since when have you lot become so crazy over an single individual over the whole team. This is not Sachin Team, but it is Team India. Anyday I will take a WC win over Sachin scoring the highest runs in the tournament. And it is not up to us to decide if we will get another Sachin. First, we might already have some future legends already in our team. Sachin will be legend but there is plenty of space for even bigger or on par legends

Way to miss the point buddy. No one is putting country, or world cup wins or cricket before Sachin. But it is as futile to explain the meaning and importance of Sachin to the die hard fans who grew up watching him as it is to explain the beauty of cosmology to an uneducated bloke The kind of emotions he gave us while we grew up watching the game can never be substituted for anything else. It certainly cannot be substituted for runs scored on a scoreboard. How many times have I prayed for him, how many times my exams or my days have been runied when he got out cheaply and gone good when he did well. I have stood on street corners with crowds of people seeing him playing on display TVs in showrooms. Have sat with elderly people huddling around radios to check the scores and danced at every four and sixes he hit. He has been associated with so many things of my life. I grew up in a time when apart from a few thrashy actors, there weren't many role models to follow. Cricket we used to love but some of the cricketers I was fans of turned out to have feets of clay. Sachin saw us through. Just as he saw us through some of the most difficult times in cricket by providing us hopes and entertainment. Yes, we are the richest board now and the no 1 team with a solid base. Maybe when he retires, soon we might not even feel a void as far as results go. But that doesnt mean we don't remember all that he has stood for No matter how much one can claim, human beings are extremely emotional animals. We associate ourselves with a figure throughout the history. Its futile to talk about teams or nations when throughout history people have associated themselves with one person. It was always one person whom people rallied around with when revolutions happened which changed the face of countries. That example might be extreme but he was my role model while growing up and the fact that I used to play cricket professionaly for a while also helped Sachin got me hooked to cricket and has been with me throughout these years. We are not computers to like everyone equally and just keep on changing loyalties. Do you think its easy to completely dissacociate oneself with all these and transfer them onto a new person? Copy paste twenty years of emotions onto a new player? Then I wouldnt be being true to myself. Nothing can substitute for him and when he retires there is a part of me which will die. The younger generation will of course have their own role models. Times pass, eras end and the wheels of life keep on turning. What excited me once does not do anymore. This is a generation of twenty twenty and the IPL and the game I loved so much has changed with the times. I love test cricket and ODIs. But I find it difficult to have the same emotions for T20. Does that mean I am not loyal to the game of cricket? Maybe if i had grown up in this generation I would have preferred watching IPL and Pathan would have been my role model. I accept that but I dont need to necessrily roll with that. I would prefer watching from the side-lines now and just catching the scores now and again. I would prefer moving on and leaving the field to enthusiastic young fans whom I hope will cheer as loudly and dance with as much abandon for the game they love as I once did. And maybe, just maybe, they will find as good a role model as Sachin to follow. But I somehow doubt that, not for a while

[Sachin=GOD]

Way to miss the point buddy. No one is putting country, or world cup wins or cricket before Sachin. But it is as futile to explain the meaning and importance of Sachin to the die hard fans who grew up watching him as it is to explain the beauty of cosmology to an uneducated bloke The kind of emotions he gave us while we grew up watching the game can never be substituted for anything else. It certainly cannot be substituted for runs scored on a scoreboard. How many times have I prayed for him, how many times my exams or my days have been runied when he got out cheaply and gone good when he did well. I have stood on street corners with crowds of people seeing him playing on display TVs in showrooms. Have sat with elderly people huddling around radios to check the scores and danced at every four and sixes he hit. He has been associated with so many things of my life. I grew up in a time when apart from a few thrashy actorrs, there weren't many role models to follow. Cricket we used to love but so of the cricketers I was fans of turned out to have feets of clay. Sachin saw us through. Just as he saw us through some of the most difficult times in cricket by providing us hopes and entertainment. Yes, we are the richest board now and the no 1 team with a solid base. Maybe when he retires, soon we might not even feel a void as far as results go. But that doesnt mean we don't remember all that he has stood for No matter how much one can claim, human beings are extremely emotional animals. We associate ourselves with a figure throughout the history. Its futile to talk about teams or nations when throughout history people have associated themselves with one person. It was always one person whom people rallied around with when revolutions happened which changed the face of countries. That example might be extreme but he was my role model while growing up and the fact that I used to play cricket professionaly for a while also helped Sachin got me hooked to cricket and has been with me throughout these years. We are not computers to like everyone equally and just keep on changing loyalties. Do you think its easy to completely dissacociate oneself with all these and transfer them onto a new person? Copy paste twenty years of emotions onto a new player? Then I wouldnt be being true to myself. Nothing can substitute for him and when he retires there is a part of me which will die. The younger generation will of course have their own role models. Times pass, eras end and the wheels of life keep on turning. What excited me once does not do anymore. This is a generation of twenty twenty and the IPL and the game I loved so much has changed with the times. I love test cricket and ODIs. But I find it difficult to have the same emotions for T20. Does that mean I am not loyal to the game of cricket? Maybe if i had grown up in this generation I would have preferred watching IPL and Pathan would have been my role model. I accept that but I dont need to necessrily role with that. I would prefer watching from the side-lines now and just catching the scores now and again. I would prefer moving on and leaving the field to enthusiastic young fans whom I hope will cheer as loudly and dance with as much abandon for the game they love as I once did. And maybe, just maybe, they will find as good a role model as Sachin to follow. But I somehow doubt that, not for a while

:adore: :adore: same here. I can't even count how many times I've bunked school/college in order to watch him bat :icflove:

[Roshanrocks]

well said MTC :icflove:

[bulbul]

i can understand some of u r sentiments eventhough i wont agree with that. Always makes fun of collesgues in office who prefer a Sachin century over India win. but game wont chnage if sachin leave because its already changed compare to the simple game we start watching some years back. isnt some of you feel sorry Sachin playing IPL and have to adjust to all the demands of entertainment requirements rather than cricket. game will become little bit different from the absense of Sachin,Dravid and Laxman.Its difficult to replace these guys. Any way i am liking IPL more than International cricket now a days so wont make much difference to me.

[Anakin]

Way to miss the point buddy. No one is putting country, or world cup wins or cricket before Sachin. But it is as futile to explain the meaning and importance of Sachin to the die hard fans who grew up watching him as it is to explain the beauty of cosmology to an uneducated bloke The kind of emotions he gave us while we grew up watching the game can never be substituted for anything else. It certainly cannot be substituted for runs scored on a scoreboard. How many times have I prayed for him, how many times my exams or my days have been runied when he got out cheaply and gone good when he did well. I have stood on street corners with crowds of people seeing him playing on display TVs in showrooms. Have sat with elderly people huddling around radios to check the scores and danced at every four and sixes he hit. He has been associated with so many things of my life. I grew up in a time when apart from a few thrashy actorrs, there weren't many role models to follow. Cricket we used to love but so of the cricketers I was fans of turned out to have feets of clay. Sachin saw us through. Just as he saw us through some of the most difficult times in cricket by providing us hopes and entertainment. Yes, we are the richest board now and the no 1 team with a solid base. Maybe when he retires, soon we might not even feel a void as far as results go. But that doesnt mean we don't remember all that he has stood for No matter how much one can claim, human beings are extremely emotional animals. We associate ourselves with a figure throughout the history. Its futile to talk about teams or nations when throughout history people have associated themselves with one person. It was always one person whom people rallied around with when revolutions happened which changed the face of countries. That example might be extreme but he was my role model while growing up and the fact that I used to play cricket professionaly for a while also helped Sachin got me hooked to cricket and has been with me throughout these years. We are not computers to like everyone equally and just keep on changing loyalties. Do you think its easy to completely dissacociate oneself with all these and transfer them onto a new person? Copy paste twenty years of emotions onto a new player? Then I wouldnt be being true to myself. Nothing can substitute for him and when he retires there is a part of me which will die. The younger generation will of course have their own role models. Times pass, eras end and the wheels of life keep on turning. What excited me once does not do anymore. This is a generation of twenty twenty and the IPL and the game I loved so much has changed with the times. I love test cricket and ODIs. But I find it difficult to have the same emotions for T20. Does that mean I am not loyal to the game of cricket? Maybe if i had grown up in this generation I would have preferred watching IPL and Pathan would have been my role model. I accept that but I dont need to necessrily roll with that. I would prefer watching from the side-lines now and just catching the scores now and again. I would prefer moving on and leaving the field to enthusiastic young fans whom I hope will cheer as loudly and dance with as much abandon for the game they love as I once did. And maybe, just maybe, they will find as good a role model as Sachin to follow. But I somehow doubt that, not for a while

Very well said. I know one thing for sure, I won't be spending more sleepless nights watching test cricket just to see SRT, Sehwag and Dravid bat. And no matter what anyone says, I know cricket won't be the same without SRT, at least for me.

[DomainK]

i can understand some of u r sentiments eventhough i wont agree with that. Always makes fun of collesgues in office who prefer a Sachin century over India win. but game wont chnage if sachin leave because its already changed compare to the simple game we start watching some years back. isnt some of you feel sorry Sachin playing IPL and have to adjust to all the demands of entertainment requirements rather than cricket. game will become little bit different from the absense of Sachin,Dravid and Laxman.Its difficult to replace these guys. Any way i am liking IPL more than International cricket now a days so wont make much difference to me.

Thats interesting. I wonder how many more are there with similar preferences.

[Guest Gunner]

For those who are believers in the religion of cricket, wouldn't you want to see the second coming of their God? :winky: That is the premise of many religions. The twelfth Imam, kalki etc

You are shia, lolz!!

[Cricketics]

Tendulkar Retires. or sehwa gretires, or Dravid retires or Laxman retires. It will be the same feleing for me. These guys have spread enough nationalism for me to continue following Indian cricket forever. It will hurt when these guys retire. But it won't effect or relate to one's cricket following daILYy schedule. It's all about India. Tendulkar has missed lot of series and I doubt i had less passion for any series where he wasn't playing. The passion will remain the same. INDIA.

[Sachinism]

MTC pull up that old article you writ about growing up with sachin and all those emotions

Very well said. I know one thing for sure, I won't be spending more sleepless nights watching test cricket just to see SRT, Sehwag and Dravid bat. And no matter what anyone says, I know cricket won't be the same without SRT, at least for me.

Absolutely, the things I've done to see these batting gods :((

[Mariyam]

You are shia' date=' lolz!![/quote'] No I'm not. Whats there to 'lol' about if some one is a Shia?

[SachDan]

Way to miss the point buddy. No one is putting country, or world cup wins or cricket before Sachin. But it is as futile to explain the meaning and importance of Sachin to the die hard fans who grew up watching him as it is to explain the beauty of cosmology to an uneducated bloke The kind of emotions he gave us while we grew up watching the game can never be substituted for anything else. It certainly cannot be substituted for runs scored on a scoreboard. How many times have I prayed for him, how many times my exams or my days have been runied when he got out cheaply and gone good when he did well. I have stood on street corners with crowds of people seeing him playing on display TVs in showrooms. Have sat with elderly people huddling around radios to check the scores and danced at every four and sixes he hit. He has been associated with so many things of my life. I grew up in a time when apart from a few thrashy actorrs, there weren't many role models to follow. Cricket we used to love but so of the cricketers I was fans of turned out to have feets of clay. Sachin saw us through. Just as he saw us through some of the most difficult times in cricket by providing us hopes and entertainment. Yes, we are the richest board now and the no 1 team with a solid base. Maybe when he retires, soon we might not even feel a void as far as results go. But that doesnt mean we don't remember all that he has stood for No matter how much one can claim, human beings are extremely emotional animals. We associate ourselves with a figure throughout the history. Its futile to talk about teams or nations when throughout history people have associated themselves with one person. It was always one person whom people rallied around with when revolutions happened which changed the face of countries. That example might be extreme but he was my role model while growing up and the fact that I used to play cricket professionaly for a while also helped Sachin got me hooked to cricket and has been with me throughout these years. We are not computers to like everyone equally and just keep on changing loyalties. Do you think its easy to completely dissacociate oneself with all these and transfer them onto a new person? Copy paste twenty years of emotions onto a new player? Then I wouldnt be being true to myself. Nothing can substitute for him and when he retires there is a part of me which will die. The younger generation will of course have their own role models. Times pass, eras end and the wheels of life keep on turning. What excited me once does not do anymore. This is a generation of twenty twenty and the IPL and the game I loved so much has changed with the times. I love test cricket and ODIs. But I find it difficult to have the same emotions for T20. Does that mean I am not loyal to the game of cricket? Maybe if i had grown up in this generation I would have preferred watching IPL and Pathan would have been my role model. I accept that but I dont need to necessrily roll with that. I would prefer watching from the side-lines now and just catching the scores now and again. I would prefer moving on and leaving the field to enthusiastic young fans whom I hope will cheer as loudly and dance with as much abandon for the game they love as I once did. And maybe, just maybe, they will find as good a role model as Sachin to follow. But I somehow doubt that, not for a while

:hatsoff: Couldn't have put it any better.

Very well said. I know one thing for sure, I won't be spending more sleepless nights watching test cricket just to see SRT, Sehwag and Dravid bat. And no matter what anyone says, I know cricket won't be the same without SRT, at least for me.

ditto!

[Raghav_12]

How many times have I prayed for him, how many times my exams or my days have been runied when he got out cheaply and gone good when he did well. I have stood on street corners with crowds of people seeing him playing on display TVs in showrooms. Have sat with elderly people huddling around radios to check the scores and danced at every four and sixes he hit. He has been associated with so many things of my life.

++ Touches a chord. Can very well associate myself with every single thing you mentioned here.

[Guest Gunner]

No I'm not. Whats there to 'lol' about if some one is a Shia?

Its like pointing at someone and shouting you are black or chinese. Lolz.

[Anakin]

MTC, you should make that into an article, it's so very true for lots of us.