Sportstar invited Sachin Tendulkar’s largest followers to pen a private observe to him forward of his fiftieth birthday. The warmest entries we obtained are being printed beneath, in no explicit order, and stand to win thrilling prizes.
The greatest 50 messages will even be printed within the upcoming challenge of the journal!
John Kuruvilla
The world stood in marvel when {the teenager} with a pencil moustache began blasting centuries along with his willow within the worldwide cricketing enviornment practically three and a half many years again, a time when India was within the cusp of sporting resurgence. Then began the saga of a superb cricketing legend who, by whole dedication and sheer dint of exhausting work, reached hitherto exceptional highs of batting glory and set information that no aspiring scions of this subject can ever dream of obliterating. Brought up within the mofussil precincts of the mega metropolis of Mumbai, together with playmate Vinod Kambli, he single-handedly popularised this erstwhile white-flannelled Englishman sport within the Indian sub-continent and made it a heady faith.
Ayan Biswas
If cricket is a physique, Tendulkar is the soul. He was the rationale why I began to look at cricket. Till my Matriculation examination we didn’t have any tv, however I heard {that a} 16-year-old lad grew to become the sword of Damocles to the hazardous Pakistani bowlers. I want you possibly can have fun your one centesimal birthday with this vitality.
Mili Sudhesh
Your induction into the nationwide cricket crew on the age of 16 showcased your functionality and prowess. It was your whole dedication to cricket together with will energy and grit that enabled you to play cricket for greater than 20 years, whereas breaking and creating many batting information in your illustrious profession. You had been an ideal crew member. You stepped down as captain, with none egos, and also you even agreed to play below junior captains and contributed immensely. Thus proving that crew achievements are extra vital than private objectives.
Ramalingam V
Tendulkar is the jewel in India’s crown. He impressed even the diamond retailers who had gathered from faraway locations comparable to Autwerp, London and Mumbai to look at worldwide fixtures hosted by Nicky Oppenheimer, the chairman of De Beers and varied different firms dealing in diamonds. They might have been weighing his carat, lower and readability earlier than they got here to the conclusion that right here in India there may be one other uncommon gem.
Shankar Ramachandran
For cricket lovers of sure classic like me, 90s was an period, when ‘God’ himself descended on Earth. For an entertainment-starved nation, India profitable the World Cup in 1983 and the following World Championship of Cricket in 1985 had been simply the form of epochal occasions that acquired etched in my reminiscence for all occasions to come back. While the entire above was occurring and when Indians had been asking for extra, a cherubic-faced youngster prodigy burst on to the scene in 1989 in Pakistan. That was the beginning of the eternal love between the Indians and the ‘God of Cricket’.
Sachin Tendulkar cuts a cake forward of his fiftieth birthday on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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Srinivasan Krishnan
From being a baby prodigy to attaining the Bharat Ratna, Sachin guarded not simply the crease but additionally a billion hopes of a rustic! Born as a mortal, he grew to become immortal.
Kushagra Mishra
His profession is the top of the sporting world, festooned by extraordinary temperament, unflinching grit and delicate batting craftsmanship, whether or not it’s the paddle sweep to beat the fielder at deep positive leg or the higher lower over the keeper’s head that was used with precision in opposition to bouncers. Even although his tennis elbow damage restricted sure actions, he managed to reinvent his batting with a optimistic intent. He is an instance of excellence, the North Star of contemporary day cricket.
Amanya Kapur
I actually agreed with Mathew Hayden when he stated — “If cricket is a religion, Sachin is a God”. You are our nation’s delight. I’ve been watching you since I used to be seven. Your ardour in the direction of cricket and enjoying for India has influenced and inspired me to comply with my goals. I respect you numerous and all the time will. I hope that I can meet you sometime and be taught extra about your journey. I want that I may change into an excellent particular person such as you and have an formidable character like yours.
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Ishaya Kumar
There got here a person with a willow in his hand who wielded it like a magic wand on a 22-yard-long pitch for greater than 20 years to earn the sobriquet — ‘God of Cricket’. You have all the time been a light-weight to the globe, that has not solely helped us win in cricket but additionally modified the way in which the world checked out India. Several colleges have begun and promoted sports activities alongside teachers because of you. I aspire to be similar to you.
Ananya Rajan
Watching my dad scream ‘Sachin, Sachin’ and shake his head whereas watching numerous reruns of your matches on TV has made me realise what you imply to our cricket-crazy nation. Each swing of your bat and century that you just scored sparked the love for cricket amongst generations of Indians. My faculty has the most important cricket floor in Delhi, and to listen to our coach inspire every participant to be the ‘next Sachin’ is heart-warming. But as they are saying, there will probably be just one Sachin, so I’m wishing you a cheerful fiftieth and a great deal of good well being.
Kolluru Raju
Sachin stands as a sworn statement for the nice character of the sport of cricket. He could be referred to as because the true prodigy of the gentleman’s sport. Other than being a legendary batsman, Sachin is understood for his humility in addition to his grit and willpower. Because of which he’s a real supply of inspiration for hundreds of thousands of cricket lovers around the globe. It is claimed that bowlers was once anxious to bowl to Sachin Tendulkar not simply due to his expertise and proficiency but additionally due to the sort of respect they’d for him as an individual. The most remembered innings of Sachin Tendulkar was the Sharjah ODI the place he scored 134 runs and in the end helped India single-handedly win the Cup. This day was additionally a special occasion for him as a result of it was his birthday.
Aditya Ranjan Sharma
Along together with your birthday, my love affair with cricket too has reached 50 milestone years. From wanting that MRF bat on each birthday of mine to shedding tears in your retirement, you all the time jogged my memory of a younger boy within the crew who grew to become a legend with time. In all these years, I discovered so much out of your luminous character — particularly everytime you acquired dismissed at 99, once we the followers grew to become sad your smile stuffed our lives with a triumphant feeling. Even at the moment your birthday does the identical.
Kiran Narendran
I all the time longed for a time machine! Not for me, in fact. If there was one, it may’ve helped Sachin return to 1st March, 2003, and rating these two runs in opposition to Pakistan to make the perfect ever World Cup innings actually full. Sachin, thanks for enjoying throughout my lifetime and illuminating my childhood, teenage and youth. Bat up for the fifty, however the innings has simply began.
Antony Chalissery
Truly a Bharat Ratna, Sachin is a uncommon breed. Whenever he scored a century, he seemed as much as the sky elevating his bat and thanking God, whereas remembering his father and different mentors. Even on the peak of being a celeb, he was a docile and down-to-earth particular person converging into uniqueness, the one and solely. While finishing half a century in his life innings, I want the Master Blaster longevity and prosperity.
Harshad Rajadhyaksha
I used to be at school and hated Chemistry and misplaced a tug of warfare sport and took my bleeding fingers residence and also you batted for me.
I spouted a moustache and spent holidays in Pune with my long-departed grandpa and beloved each match you performed and also you batted for me.
I fell in love and out of affection and graduated and seemed forward at my model new goals and also you batted for me.
I misplaced my canine and I cried and cried and I gave up non-veg and also you batted for me.
I used to be in workplace and we buddies bonded over you and screamed ourselves hoarse on the streets and fluttered the flag as you ripped by way of Shoaib and also you batted for me.
I acquired higher pay and purchased my first automobile and a brand new LCD to go and on it too, you batted for me. I noticed folks lose jobs and never lose hopes and the world was now a far more durable place and also you batted for me.
I got here again residence from some actually tiring work and a baby in my constructing referred to as me uncle and I placed on the TV and also you had been there and also you batted like I used to be nonetheless at school and just like the world had not moved and also you batted for me.
Yuvraj Yadav
Happy birthday to the deity whose drives are straight as ‘Arjuna’s Arrow’, upper-cuts sharper than ‘Takemikazuchi’s Sword’, punches as stable as ‘Zeus’s Thunderbolt’ and nonetheless calm as ‘Equanimous Buddha’.
Mitul Sinha
I’ve by no means seen Don Bradman play reside however I can proudly say that I had the privilege of watching Sachin bat. No one else can play the straight drive with the identical magnificence because the Little Master. I used to gather his Boost stickers and pictures of his from all newspapers, be it in any language, simply to get them added to my Sachin Dairy.
Deepa
Born with a willow in hand,
Hailed because the GOD of cricket land;
Sportsman par excellence,
Your footwork was your best defence;
Genius of the sport,
No one may ever match your fame;
An iconic cricketer, a legend of your occasions,
Your ardour and perseverance rang a many victory chimes;
Darling of the lots,
One will endlessly cherish your centuries in all matches;
Words fall brief in reward of you,
Blessed by the fingers of God are born just a few;
Wishing you a cheerful birthday this 12 months,
Hope good luck and peace be with you endlessly.
In this February 24, 2010 file photograph, Sachin Tendulkar celebrates a double century in opposition to South Africa in Gwalior.
| Photo Credit: PTI
Anurag Asopa
Sir, you may have set a robust basis within the lives of the pre-digital period technology. I worth you essentially the most together with my household. I witnessed your journey from Sahitya Sehwas to Perry Cross Road and phrases can’t describe how every innings of yours has motivated me in my life. I owe my each achievement to you (after the blessings of my dad and mom & household). I’m blessed to be part of Sachin’s Era.
Love Durai
I bear in mind how we used to collect across the tv set, eagerly ready for Sachin to stroll out to bat. We would watch in awe as he took on the perfect bowlers on the planet and made them look strange. I additionally bear in mind how we might mimic Sachin’s batting type within the streets, utilizing makeshift cricket bats and tennis balls.
Sachin Tendulkar was greater than only a cricketer to us 90s children. He was a logo of hope, a supply of inspiration, and a legend in each sense of the phrase.
Yash Pratap
Sachin Sir, with the runs you scored, you took a sledge hammer to traditional pictorial batting, chalking up runs that crackled with a uncooked primitive energy that immediately bewitched the younger likes of Yuvraj & Dhoni.
You liberated what it meant to be a classical batsman like Gavaskar (typical, right and correct), remodeling morose singles into serene drives and flicks that truly transformed to fours. In order to do that you deserted 100 years of inventive refinement.
Your batting conveyed the velocity of occasions, issues and life itself within the fashionable world. Your genius illuminated the world of cricket like a comet; effectively, it’s nonetheless blazing away at the moment.
Brijesh Srivastava
You usually are not solely a blessed cricketer with unparalleled method and cricketing mind however an establishment that helped the Indian cricket ecosystem scale new heights. Your retirement from worldwide cricket was a watershed second that divided Indian cricket into pre and post-Tendulkar eras.
Arya R Nair
Those straight drives didn’t simply go previous the umpire for a boundary, however straight into our hearts. We celebrated your centuries, bit our nails throughout your 90’s and have become dejected throughout powerful occasions. You all the time discovered methods to come back again stronger from accidents or a scarcity of kind — the epic 241 at Sydney, a testomony to that.
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Midhun Menon
I ‘hate’ Sachin Tendulkar to the core. He was the rationale I acquired scoldings from my mom for skipping research and pa’s beatings for breaking the glass window of my neighbour’s residence whereas practising Sachin’s lofted shot. I practically missed by twelfth board examination as a result of I used to be ready for him to attain his 10,000th ODI run. I additionally needed to miss an S5 engineering examination as a result of he was enjoying that Sydney basic in 2004. Finally, he was the rationale I cried like a child on sixteenth November, 2013. Sachin, ‘I hate you like I love you’.
Ritwika Dhar
The solely means I can seize the huge essence, impression and which means of Sachin in our lives is alphabetically. Achrekar Sir; Billion goals; Century of centuries; Desert storm; (Tennis) Elbow; Fighter; Gwalior 200; Headingley; Inspiration; Jab Sachin out television off; Kambli; (Brett) Lee 14; Mumbai; Newlands 169; Old Trafford 1990; (Shivaji) Park; Queen’s Park Oval; Rajni & Ramesh’s son; Sachin Tendulkar Sach is reality, Sach is life, Sach is the reply, Sach is it.
Ashika
We reside in a rustic that breathes and lives cricket the place Sachin is the one who lit the ambiance. He is the true epitome of ‘how to live cricket’. We can by no means thank sufficient this ‘Moon’ of ours whose moonlight brightened India on one other degree.
Jhanvi Langalia
You are my largest inspiration to change into a cricketer. I’ve seen many matches that you just’ve performed, each achievement you’ve acquired, and I’ve hardly seen you fail. You have taught me that a person is totally different on and off subject. If you win a match, that doesn’t make you nice, for those who lose a match, that doesn’t outline you, both! Thank you for instructing me that success and failures needs to be equal as failure will not be reverse. In reality, it is part of success.
Gautham Menon
You are the umbilical wire to our childhood. Your centuries had been an ecstasy and dismissals a heartbreak. Wishing my ‘CHILDHOOD’ a well-deserved half-century.
Venkateswaran N
You are an epitome of exhausting work reaping the fruits of success, who by no means took something as a right and handled the sport above all the pieces else — the innings of 79* for Mumbai in opposition to Haryana in 2013 earlier than your remaining worldwide sequence, a living proof. The emotion of ‘Sachin, Sachin…’ will all the time reside with us.
Sony Raj
26 wanted off one Qadir over,
You had been born then;
22 yards of Sialkot, Wasim and Waqar,
You grew up there;
Flies swatted away that night time,
Henry Olonga amongst them;
Short, you aren’t,
Say Ambrose and Walsh;
Not to say McGrath and Warne,
Or Murali and minnows;
That Shoaib waft over level takes pole place,
Amongst tons and tons of enjoyable;
Keep these cash of Ramakant bhai shut,
For actual males deal solely with actual foreign money;
We rise to at least one extra fifty,
As we did for these numerous ones.
‘Sachiiin, Sachiiin’, the cry goes on… and on.
Sachin Tendulkar (Bombay) edges the ball into the gloves of Ehtesham Ali Khan (Hyderabad) off Venkatapathy Raju throughout a Charminar Challenge Ranji Trophy match at Hyderabad on February 4, 1989.
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Barath Selvan
He carried the whole burden of the nation for nearly 24 years! The runs he scored, the height he has achieved, the failures he has gone by way of, the criticism he confronted, the information he has set, and the folks he impressed can’t be within the pages of another cricketer around the globe.
Mary Vidhya Okay
You are the rationale behind me falling in love with cricket. You have taught us not to surrender, to transcend boundaries and create milestones. I need to return in time simply to see you enjoying once more. The Indian crew is incomplete with out you.
Sayantan Dey
The flag bearer of Indian cricket, the hope for 1,000,000 Indian eyes, whether or not its Sharjah, Wankhede, Eden or Sydney; the heartstring of this cricket-crazy nation, the silent fighter, the mighty warrior, the standard and the invincible. Watching you bat has been completely ambrosial!
Vinu Suraj
He is the closest to perfection. Not certain how he stays that humble even after having carried the entire nation’s expectations for greater than 20 years. As a tribute to my hero, I acquired him etched on me as a tattoo. I want that he lives on endlessly.
Kembai Srinivasa Rao
Your distinctive urge of steady studying to improve your type of play to match all evolving codecs of cricket impressed many children to be taught from you. Even whereas pursuing the height of your sports activities profession, yo mentored the subsequent technology of younger cricketers. We now see glimpses of your type in lots of them.
Sourav Sinha
I bear in mind studying a news article within the Nineteen Eighties a couple of marvel child in Mumbai named Sachin Tendulkar who could possibly be India’s subsequent Sunil Gavaskar. I used to be ready so that you can be chosen within the Indian crew; and I didn’t have to attend lengthy as you bought chosen for the Pakistan tour in 1989. In these days, you used to bat with a helmet that didn’t have a entrance grille. One of Waqar Younis’ balls reared up dangerously and caught you on the face. You fell with blood throughout. The ball had hit your nostril and it was a horrible scene. Navjot Sidhu, who was your accomplice on the different finish, later stated that you just acquired up with confidence and uttered, Hum khelega (I’ll play). That’s Sachin Tendulkar!
Usha Krishnamurthy
S – Simple
A – Adorable
C – Charismatic
H – Hardworking
I – Inspiring
N – Noble
That is SACHIN.
Vishal Akre
It is tough to attain success. But it’s a lot tougher to maintain success. Your toes had been all the time on the bottom even when your fame was touching the sky. It is a privilege for me to be born in your ‘Generation, City and Country’. On this special occasion, I want happiness to all the time flourish in your life as abundantly because the runs you scored whereas all of your sorrows get bowled out.
Deivanayagam Subramanian
S – SIMPLE
A – ADMIRABLE
C – CRICKETER
H – HUMBLE
I – INDIAN
N – NATIVE
T – TERRIFIC
E – ELEGANT
N – NATURAL
D – DARING
U – UNIQUE
L – LOVELY
Okay – KNOCKING
A – AGGRESSIVE
R – RAREST
Chaitanya Tatya
May 8, 2017: The twelfth board outcomes had been introduced and I used to be to look once more subsequent 12 months.
Struggling to even cross the Science course, I used to be hopeless about my future. Same day, I went to see Sachin: A Billion Dreams. and I skilled a curler coaster of feelings. I’m a small-town boy, chasing his goals little by little. I dont know what God is, however Sachin Tendulkar has proven me the precise route each time I’ve hit my lowest.
I’ve come miles, and have extra to go. I want the identical for him!
Kalpesh Bamboli
I used to suppose that you just don’t age. But you do. You don’t even play cricket anymore. Which means, I’m not a baby anymore. In reality, cricket will not be cricket anymore. It’s a sport now. I don’t get goosebumps once I see a cover-drive now. I don’t embarrass myself by screaming when a batsman scores a century. I don’t get upset once I miss a match now. I don’t suppose I’ll get up at 4:00 am simply to look at a cricket match anymore. There are not any feelings left in cricket. Wood and leather-based, nothing extra!
Ananthakrishnan R
Have you seen God, my buddies? We noticed him, not in heaven however in a stadium. We have seen legends and champions however we have now not seen a god in entrance our eyes till Sachin Tendulkar got here in to bat at No. 4 for India. Nothing unhealthy will occur when you’ve got Sachin in your goals as a result of he’s a god.
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Ajay Nair
Sachin, the grasp blaster, the cricketing nice,
Fifty years of life, and information exhausting to duplicate.
The little grasp, who wielded the willow with grace,
A cricketer par excellence, whose feats none can exchange.
You scored 100 centuries, an unparalleled feat,
In cricketing historical past, your title shall endlessly beat.
The highest run-scorer in Tests and ODIs mixed,
Your impression on the sport, we will endlessly remind.
On this special occasion, we want you pleasure and cheer,
May your life be blessed with all that’s pricey.
You’re an inspiration to hundreds of thousands, a real icon of the sport,
Your legacy shall endlessly stay.
Thank you, Sachin, for all of the reminiscences you’ve given,
For the moments which have made our hearts livin’.
Here’s wishing you good well being, happiness and love,
May your fiftieth birthday be as grand because the heavens above.
Chandan Kumar
From admiring the perfect of the sport in Sunil Gavaskar and Viv Richards and sharing the sector with legends like Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly to dealing with the hardest bowlers from three totally different generations like Waqar, Wasim, Walsh, Lee, McGrath, Warne, Cronje, Murali, Vaas, Steyn, Anderson and so forth — enjoying it your means was by no means simple. The impression you’ve had within the lives of Dhoni, Virat, Rohit and hundreds of thousands of individuals together with your magic is exceptional but unexplainable on the identical time.
Hema Chandran S S
I used to be 14 in 2008, once I was watching from the F stand of Chepauk since mid of Day 3 of that unforgettable Test in opposition to England the place Sachin scored an unbeaten 103.
He amazed all of us along with his very pure (basic) and distinctive straight and canopy drives. Moreover, it was by no means simple to cement his place within the Indian crew for twenty-four lengthy years whereas many different cricketers had been nonetheless making an attempt to make their worldwide debut.
Korak Banerjee
Cricket or Sachin — I don’t know whose fan I grew to become first. I can’t even bear in mind how I grew to become a devotee of him.
But I do know that this man is my oxygen! The motive for my most happiness in life is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
He is my idol for his self-discipline, dedication, devotion and behavior on and off the sector. Sachin Sir, I need to see one other chanceless hundred from you after 50 years. I’ll watch for it. The complete India will watch for it.
Suchitra S
You had been my favorite sportsperson, even previous to me getting acquainted with cricket, since you had been the favorite of many round me who seemed as much as you as a child. It was by way of the prism of your sport that I grew to become a fan of the game, which solely fueled my admiration for you exponentially.
Newspaper clippings, magazines, posters & playing cards — I collected all of them to gratify my awe of you. I nonetheless reminisce the occasions I watched cricket simply to be stunned by your sport.
Thank you for all that you’ve got finished for the game, followers and past.
Biplab Dikshit
As a 90s child, I too was captivated with SRT. I used to regulate my guard similar to him, whereas holding an MRF bat. It all began once I noticed him play within the 1996 World Cup.
I used to be barely six then. He was going after Warne and never letting him settle.
I felt a connection; simply didn’t need him to get out.”
L. Srichandrasekar
Sachin! Sachin! Sachin! Sachin!… these chants that emanate from each Indian, whether or not on or off the cricket subject, stand testimony to his sheer exhausting work and dedication. In Sachin’s heydays, the burden of a nation was on his shoulders and he didn’t disappoint. His stats present he’s the best. His acts present he’s the best. His grace reveals he’s the perfect. His persona reveals he’s essentially the most trustworthy.
Charudatt Prabhu
“We are all enveloped in Sachin’s aura. Aren’t we? He occupied our hearts and minds. His success felt like a personal one, while his failure made us feel for him. No words will ever suffice to express gratitude for what he has done. We pray that he gets what was always expected of him: a 100, the real one. May the next 50 come effortlessly, Sachin, we promise, there will be no pressure.”
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com