A day that has two noons - Sachin

This is the cricketing career of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. Twenty years long career that will forever remain a bible not only to the cricketing fraternity but also to every individual who seeks excellence and strives to stay at the scaled heights with all his heart. His life is a source of inspiration for the youth. He is God for all those who respect their profession, love every moment on their job and try and dedicate their lives to work. His approach to cricket is worth emulating in every profession. The was he handles commendation and criticism is a lesson that has to be taught in every college.
The ageless wonder, the little master has been doing the impossible all these 20 years. Thirty thousand runs in the international cricket, 90+ centuries in both the forms of game and a 200 in the shorter form of the game at an age of 37. At an age when most of the cricketers struggle to keep fit, this maestro has batted for full fifty overs and scampered like a hare in his 190s. Sachin's career graph has two plateaus and two peaks.Forget about the peaks, the plateau lines itself pass through the peak points of some of the best all time cricketers in the world. The first plateau began in 1989 and ascended a peak after 9 years in 1998. Sachin has scored 9 ODI centuries in this year alone and recorded 3 test centuries during this season. If you look closely most of the one day openers spent all their careers to score 9 centuries. That is the peak I am talking about. This was the first noon of Tendulkar. He tore the opposition down, scored back to back centuries at Sharjah against the deemed and feared Australian attack. In 1998 every time Sachin went out to bat it was a rain of runs, fours and sixes. He sent the ball rolling and flying all over the park. If he got out, he got out scoring.
In the following years he descended the peak and returned to his usual best to remain there till the year end of 2003. In the 2003 world cup he scored the highest number in runs. From 2003 to 2005 it could be described as shadow period by Tendulkar's standard but this shadow was bright enough to make a cricketing career for some batsman. Then comes begins 2009 and the tiger has matured to kill the prey with a single blow. He walked out to score hundreds. He hit them at will and wish. He started scaling yet another peak. The second noon of this son of India. In the past 12 months he has scored 3 out of his 4 highest scores. In the last 4 tests he has scored 4 centuries and more is just to come. I do not know what is running in Sachin's mind. But, I would wish and hope India wins the 2011 world cup, before this sunsets on the cricket ground.

What Alan Donald said about Sachin