I just could not resist putting up a blog post. I am doing so for my selfish reasons beacause I dont want to forget it(I will never) but still whenever I will open this blog it will remind me that there was one man who has marked the day .
200 Not Out from just 147 Balls with 25 Boundaries and 3 sixes, batting from the 1st over till the last ball of the entire Indian innings, this spectacle will be, and should be, talked, written and discussed all over the sporting world for not only days, months but years to come. It took 2961 One-day Internationals, before the 200 mark barrier was broken and that too by one of the finest cricketers of all time.
In the era of Facebook, Twitter and IMs, it seemed pretty obvious that not only the print media but the electronic media and communications would be going ga-ga over Sachin's innings. But what stood out when Sachin actually scored that run was the commentary from the two commentators, the excerpts of which are below:
Ravi Shastri:A Huge Cheer from the Crowd ... Here is the opportunity for the little fellaw ...
Sachin on strike, hits the ball towards point, runs for a single and the crowd goes berserk !!!
Ravi Shastri: Gets it ! First man on the planet to reach 200 ... And it's the superman from India ... Take a bow Master ...
You little champion ... If there was anyone deserving to break this milestone, this everest, it is certainly Sachin Tendulkar ...
When you see someone scoring 200 you will obviously get lost thinking about that inning.....the first man ever to get to this score in ODI,442 matches taken him but he is there before anyone else....
One man's words cannot justify the excitement every Indian has felt on the day. So here is a compilation of the thoughts as my friends have quoted(thanks to Raja for the compiled list):
"He doesn't require much effort to keep India happy - all he has to do is get hold of a bat and stride out to the middle. With Sachin Tendulkar superlatives don't ever exhaust themselves. There might come a day when Roget's Thesaurus will fail to find adequate words to describe the man, but he himself will not fail. " -Utkrisht Kumar Shandilya
“Every Indain had an orgasm” - S Aditya Shekhar
God (yes, the Real One) [on feeling insecured by Sachin's recent elevation to God]: "...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, and you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you..." – Pulkit Anand
"Contrary to popular perception, Sachin Tendulkar (also known as the God, Master Blaster, the One, Jesus etc) is actually made of flesh and blood. There are suggestions (unclaimed) that He is a genetically modified homo-sapiens, and arguments (unproved) that He is a by product of improved evolution. A further theory emphasizes that He is one of the two prototypes, other being a certain Bradman, made by the Jedi before the Sith Wars to clobber the dark side into submission." - Abhishek Kashyap
"Through proxy-wars and floods,terrorist attacks and droughts, through living under corrupt politicians and battling for survival at work or school - through it all, it was one man that brought us hope, who needed only to wield a bat to unite the most diverse country in the world. A hero who did not need a script, arc-lights and endless retakes to have the audience gasping in awe, but played out dramas in real-time." - Prateek Kr. Jain
"@sachin: thank u for everything and for all that is yet to come..thanks for bringing this smile on the 100 crore faces...only if you could play another 20 yrs..there r no words which even come close to substantiating ur greatness..u have belittled God today..hats off !!" - Ankit Kakrania
"aaj india ka hapiness index badh gaya hai......wah sachin" - Prateek Kr. Jain
"24th February... Happy Sachin Day!!!!" - Surya Teja P.
"yo sachin................aaj cricket itihaas ka sabse bada din hain..........aur sab shrey jata hain cricket ke baadshah batting ke khuda sachin ko..................isase bada din shayad hi is sadi me dekhne ko mile..............." - Mahesh Kumar
"no bird in hand and..... none in the bush!!! but bcoz of sachin, i m khush" - Pradeep Rathore
"If you have grown up as an average middle-class Indian kid in the 90's, you know what I mean. This one's to God. Sachin Tendulkar." - Somnath Meher
"Sachin=God! Om Sachinayen Namah!" - Amit Bhojane
"Sachin is God. Period." - Shrey Goyal
"God is Sachin" - Raja Gopal Sunkara
"of all the players on the planet, it had to be him. like they say in slumdog millionaire...IT WAS WRITTEN." - Pratyush Peddireddi
"100 years ago, in South Africa, someone threw an Indian off a train. Today, an Indian derailed South Africa only...." – Unknown
"opened a new coulumn in a batting cards...SACHIN !! 50s-93, 100s-45, 200s-1" - Raghu Komal P.
"theres Jack Bauer and theres Clark Kent and then theres Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar" - Suraj Dandekar
"God himself envies SACHIN!!!!! - L. Karthik Reddy
"Not everyone can make a 100 crore human beings go crazy." - Biswakalyan Rath
"commit ur sins while sachin is batting... coz god is busy watching" - Ravidutta Choudhuri
"Sometimes reality goes beyond imagination !!!! God at work indeed !!" - Abhinav Ankur
"Reducing atheists since 1989" - Suyash Sinha
When Proteas were getting fours and sixes as token...Right they said, it was divine to see records getting broken...But then who said that faith does not persist...And who all believed that God does not exist...You, you all can rub your face in mud...As there is a God standing in flesh and blood...Cricket is his passion, Cricket is his game...SACHIN, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is his name.....
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