Lets mock Sachin

Sachin should retire!
He has become a liability to the team.
He is no longer effective in the one-day format of the game.
He’s not played the attacking game that he’s known for.
He is playing for personal records and milestones.
Sachin is simply staying in the team to boost up his commercial value.
He has not won a single world cup for India.

Many more such statements have been made after India’s T20 world cup victory.

Here are a few answers to the qns and statements put forward by his critics.

1) He was the highest run scorer in One-day internationals from 1990-1999.
2) He is the second highest run getter in the period 2000-2007 only behind Mohammad Yousuf. He has achieved this in spite of the constant injuries that he has suffered in this period.
3) He’s no longer the young kid in the block. He has reduced the element of risks in his shots and is still scoring at a strike rate of 90+ for the past 4 yrs.
4) He has been dismissed in 90’s for seven times this year with three of them due to poor umpiring decisions. In almost all these occasions he had scored these runs before the 30th over. He could have easily got to his 100 if he was interested in personal milestones.
5) Which one of us will say no if offered the commercials and the money? And he’s earned all those because of his talent, the mad fan following and the media. So why blame him alone?
6) Yes he has not been able to win a world cup for us. But is it really his fault? Twice he had single handedly taken us to the semi final and final in 1996 and 2003. The fact that he could not get a world cup for us is going to remain as a scar in his heart forever.

It’s true that the younger generation of players have proved themselves at the T20 World cup. They’ve exhibited the talent that’s hidden in the country.

But spare a thought for the man who has so selflessly served for India for close to 2 decades. He had carried the hopes of a billion people for most part of his career. He would have been knighted had he been born in some other country like Australia or England.
Lets at least give him the respect that he has earned across these years.