Bravo Tendulkar!

 

 

It’s not everyday that one gets a Bharat Ratna let alone in the field of sports. True determination, hardwork and simplicity, I would say leads one towards this. It is not one which can be obtained so easily as it is India’s highest civilian award and given to only those who have achieved the highest order of performance in any field of human endeavour.

With that said, Sachin Tendulkar, the man we worship in the name of cricket every single day has proved himself as a "jewel of India" after collecting his award from the President of India last evening.

It has been one heck of a year for this same guy who once upon a time was a young shy, timid little fellow who had just walked onto the cricket field for the very first time to make his test debut against Pakistan. Since then, so much has changed. He has played lots of matches , broken records and achieved some more national honours. But when it comes to his ethics and principles, nothing has changed!

Even in his early years at school, he was known as a child prodigy so it is not like he has come out of nowhere. He excelled in the sport at both school and college levels and even after accomplishing the best of victories, he kept pushing, always telling himself that he could do so much better.

Today, he is the youngest recipient of the Bharat Ratna award and also beat the legendary hockey wizard, the late Dhyan Chand to it.

Questions keep arising whether he actually deserved it. Could this just be biased because cricket is a little too over hyped here? I bet every household in our country has a television set just to catch the game live itself!

Tendulkar was the greatest batsman of his generation, always surprising his fans with either some great batting strokes or daring bowling moves.

He is the first man to play 200 five-day Test matches, and he played more one-day international games, 463, than anyone else. He is the highest career run scorer - 15,847 in Tests and 1826 in one-days -- in both formats. He has also scored 100 or more runs more often than anyone else in both formats, with 51 in Tests and 49 in one-days, giving him a neat and unprecedented 100 centuries in international cricket.

Last evening, he had dedicated the Bharat Ratna "to all mothers of India."  He was so grateful for what his mother had done for him that he further goes down expressing his feelings to all the mothers in India and would like to share his award with them. Truly admirable on his part, I must say!

 

"I will continue to bat for India even though my cricket has stopped, but I will continue to bat for India and try my best to give people of India a reason to smile," Tendulkar said after being conferred the Bharat Ratna by the President.

There may be a day when some other great star will take over all his innumerable records but none shall ever forget him and this is just another award to show his true dedication to the sport.

Bravo Tendulkar!

You are a true inspiration to all the aspiring, young ones out there. We are ever so proud Indians today.